similar to: dry-run?

In the documentation, there is an example such as this: case $operatingsystem { sunos: { include solaris } # apply the solaris class redhat: { include redhat } # apply the redhat class default: { include generic } # apply the generic class } I''ve seen the $operatingsystem variable used elsewhere. What actually puts the value into the $operatingsystem variable? Does

From looking at the Facter code, it looks like the ''operatingsystemrelease'' fact is currently a mirror of the ''kernelrelease'' fact. I''d like to implement this fact so that it returns the major version of the operating system, eg: Debian Sarge: operatingsystemrelease => 3.1 Debian Etch: operatingsystemrelease => 4.0 RHEL3 update 8:

It seems like a very common expectation that the following code would work: class boo { $me = "/something" file { $me: ensure => present } } class yay inherits boo { $me = "/something/else" } Yet, as many have found to their chagrin, it does not work. Should it? I believe I know how I could make this work: Create a single variable namespace for class

I have a machine with two swap partitions (sda2 and sda8). Both will have none as mount point. When I try to use puppet (using mount type) for managing fstab I get problems because "name" in both instances (i.e. mount path) will be "none". How should I fix this within puppet? Regards Halvard Moe

Hi, From looking at the puppetd --help, there is not currently (at 0.22.4) a method of specifying tags in the puppetd.conf. I was hoping to use this for the following reason: Currently, I use ''noop = true'' in my puppetd.conf, and run ''puppetd --no-noop {tags}'' to install the configurations that I am happy with. This is because I''m currently

Does anyone know if it''s possible to do the following: Given the directory structure: /foo/bar /foo/bar/<bunch of stuff> Is it possible to set /foo/bar to, say 555, and all stuff below to 440 or the directory equivalent? Thanks, Trevor

When I say busybox it''s actually VMware ESX server which seems to use busybox (which I guess is the case a number of other software appliances) . Reason for wanting to install puppet is to run the cli tools to create nightly vmware snapshots. I''m happy to give it a go (and add the docs to the wiki) but I''m not too sure at this stage how big a task this might be and what,

On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 05:26:14PM +0000, Davis, Richard wrote: > Apologies for the direct questioning, but is there a limit to the > amount of disks (virtio devices) assigned to VM that virt-v2v can > handle ? (I'm moving RHEL VM's from RH KVM hypervisors to RHEV > using virt-v2v-0.8.9-2.el6.x86_64) The published version of virt-v2v can only handle either 2 or 3 guest hard

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:57:40PM +0000, Davis, Richard wrote: > I see that the libguestfs packages are included in the RHEV > Hypervisor product. > > Are there any plans to further integrate the libguestfs toolset into > the RHEV product ? In particular, the ability to mount and change > raw volume content for a VM via guestfish ? Yes there are plans to do this, but no public

After stumbling merrily into the ''node inheritance variable override'' problem last night (see ''RFC: Changing variable override'' thread for more info), it occurred to me that it would be useful to have a page in the Wiki to describe common misconceptions of the way that the puppet language and system works. Are folk happy for this to be a separate page, or

I''m having problem with the following manifest, trying to use a define as a virtual type: define adm_user ( $user, $uid, $comment, $sysgroup = "sysadmin", $shell = "/bin/bash", $basedir = "/home.local", $ensure = "present" )

Hi all, I need my servers to decide which network they are in (i.e. dmz), and the only clue is the servers IP-address. I was trying to accomplish it like this, but it doesn''t work: case $ipaddress { "10.1.1.*": { $network = "net1" } "10.2.2.*.*": { $network = "net2" } "10.3.3.*": {

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all We''re currently looking at the next release of Facter and the future direction of the tool. I''d like to try and prompt some discussions on facter and what people want from it. As a starter here''s some (although not all) of the ideas we''ll be working through: 1. Namespaces - add a namespace or tiered

Hi all! I have quation: how i may use nested variables/facts? For example, I have variable $iface. It''s variable declared in node brakets, and, use with defenition. iface may be eth0, eth1(Linux), em0, ... <freebsd>, ... is fact: facter | grep eth0 | grep mac macaddress_eth0 => 54:52:00:3D:CB:40 We don''nt know name of $iface in our module (to generate network

Hi List, I backported the latest hypervisor and utils for etch on x86_64. However, I'm having some problems starting the xend daemon which is packaged in the xen-utils-common package. I'm trying to run this against a dom0 kernel which I downloaded from :-

I just started digging into puppet and it looks like puppet is using a pull model. You have a master server and clients talk to it to get config info. Is anyone out there using a push model? If not, why not? Are there security reasons you would use one over the other? It seems that cfengine also uses a push model, so I wondered if this is a "standard" or if there are specific

Hello everyone! Ive been on rails for the last month or so and really enjoyed this framework. However its very hard to find documentation on how to do things right! For example every beginner after a while realizes that having similar CRUD actions in every controller and views for them is not DRY at all! Few days ago I found http://dereksivers.com/rails-shared-controller.html I quite like his

I tend to write a fresh description block for every change in the parameters for that specific action, because I hate conditionals in the example describtion, e.g.: describe SomeController, "handling GET /path/with/param/3" do it "should do this" it "should not do this if" it "should still do that in both cases" end Seperate description blocks keep

I''ve got 8 scaffolds, each one can be considered an ''item'', such as a blog, photo, etc. Using login_engine and user_engine, I list all blogs belonging to a user by saying: @user=session[:user] @blogs=@user.blogs.find(:all) but then let''s say I want to create an option where I want to slice it differently: @user=session[:user] if @someOption ==1

Why select_date and select_date? I dont understand why having both (backward compat?). I also look that their source are different, one use the InstanceTag and others calls 3 select_(year, month, day) functions.