similar to: Modules and the file server

I tried to install the ''mongrel'' gem tonight via puppet in an attempt to migrate from webrick to mongrel as described on the puppet site[1]. I added the following to my manifest: package { "rubygems": ensure => installed; "mongrel": ensure => installed, provider => gem, require => Package["rubygems"]; }

I just updated to 0.22.2 and am running into a strange issue. I''m starting puppetmaster, and seeing this in my error log: err: /puppetconfig/reporting/File[/Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/var/reports]/ensure: change from absent to directory failed: Cannot create /Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/var/reports; parent directory /Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/var does not exist err:

Hi, I''m new to Puppet, but it looks very good, so far. We are going to use it for a multi-tier (DEV, QA, staging, production) environment which is consists of web, app, and database servers. I have a couple of suggestions for the Puppet documentation that may save others some time. First, it seems node names MUST be FQDNs (hostname and hostname. will not work). Since we are not using

Hello all, puppet hangs while trying to restart a daemon when the associated config file changes, here the log: Mar 19 11:30:04 ingentTest puppetd[27390]: Starting Puppet client version 0.22.0 puppetd[27390]: Starting configuration run puppetd[27390]: (/ingenttest/qualsevolnode/guaita[guaita]/File[/etc/guaita.conf]/content) synced puppetd[27390]:

We are happily running xen on a server which uses a SATA driver (thank you all you xenists for producing such a great product). However, we are creating a custom kernel for a domU. When we attempt to run mkinitrd we get: No module ata_piix found for kernel 2.6.11.12-xenUIPSec, aborting. This is the SATA driver. In the past (xen 2.0.5), we simply ran make ARCH=xen menuconfig and told it to

Hi, I''m working on a method to manage packages which require a reboot after being installed. I''m curious how other people are handling this problem. Consider the resource: pkg_deploy { "MacOSXUpdCombo10.4.9Intel.dmg": alias => macosx1049 } I''d like to only install the package under if the following conditions are met: - No user is logged into the

Here is my situation: 1. We use Active directory (LDAP) to store all user info which is retrieved from linux 2. A home directory is not created until the first time the user logs into the linux system I am using the ssh_authorized_key type to push out my ssh keys to every system. However, because I haven''t logged into every system at least once. Puppet errors out due to a missing

Hello All, I''m using the "Branch Testing" approach documented at https://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/BranchTesting and am seeing an issue with certificates. On all clients, I can run puppetd --masterport=8141 successfully but see the following error when I run against the default (8140) port: err: Could not retrieve configuration: Certificates were not trusted:

Hello dear list. First of all thanks to all the developers for the great work on puppet. After using it for a while, there is not better tool to manage a network! I have a problem with the $processor fact, which seems to be either not there or ignored at all. I try to implement package deployment for the Macs (Intel vs. PowerPC) as described here:

The below seems to give me several minutes of 15-60% cpu usage. As far as I can tell there doesn''t seem to be anything really wrong with my configuration. Anyone have any idea why this might be the case? I also get about 6% memory usage. This is a 3.0 ghz Xeon with 2 gigs of memory. class apache2 { file { "/etc/apache2": recurse =>

Hey all- I am trying to set up branch testing as described at http://www.reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/BranchTesting , but am running into a few snags. I''ve set up an alternate directory for the testing branch config files, and have created a copy of everything stored under /var/lib/puppet and pointed the test server to that stuff. However, when I try to connect to the test

Hi, My environment is composed of ~250 workstations hitting a single puppetmaster server, which has been working fairly well up until now. The most recent change has been a migration of a lot of remote file copy objects which were previously handled with cfengine. client side puppetd calls to the puppetmaster.getconfig method are taking unreasonably long, on the order of 2-3 minutes. It

Hi, I''ve just turned email reporting on for my Puppet installation, and discovered that I''m receiving intermittent failures on files being copied from the file server. Puppet is running every 30 seconds, but I''m getting these errors maybe 12 times in 24 hours. Any thoughts on the significance of this? The error message is a bit opaque for me. Thu Aug 16 18:17:56

I am using stdlib module''s validate_re function to validate parameters passed to a parameterized class as pasted here: http://pastebin.com/7eYAeLEa . The validation works fine however when I run this manifest locally using ''puppet apply'' command where puppet execution stops if a validation test fails. However when I use it in client-server model then I do see a

Hello! I''ve been trying to use facts from Facter in a custom function. I''ve been following Matthew''s entry in the wiki (http://www.reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/WritingYourOwnFunctions). What i''m seeing is that Facter[''fqdn''].value is always returning the fqdn of the puppetmaster host. I was expecting the fqdn of the client host.

Hello all, Recently I was asked to start using Puppet as part of our Eucalyptus powered internal cloud. I have been able to set up Puppet and a puppet master on various instances, but what I am running into, is that several of the instances have the same hostname or no hostname when they are first launched, so of course when they try to get a cert from puppetmaster I get an error saying that I

I''m having this issue where "puppetd -v -o" hangs (won''t return my prompt) when starting a daemon I wrote. If puppetd is running as a daemon a zombie process is created each time puppetd tries to start my daemon. Puppet detects when the daemon is down and starts it just fine. I''m using version 0.22.3 on RHEL 5. Here''s the class. I''ve

I have been working on adding some predicate functions to puppetlabs-stdlib that test things based on ''interfaces'' and related facts. The functions themselves seem to work fine in my manifest-based smoketests, but I am running into trouble that may or may not be due to my ignorance about rspec or Facter. Something needs to be done to initialize Facter because

Does any one have a recipe for getting facter facts from ldap?

Hiya, I''ve recently updated my svn server so that it checks the syntax of .erb files, on commit, along with .pp files. While doing this, I ran across a small but niggling issue and wanted to see if I was just doing something wrong or if it was a bug. In my sudoers template file, I have a number of lines that start along the lines of: %sup ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL %mon ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL