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Hi, While puppet creates its own directories for internal stuff (puppetca, state, etc.), there''s a fair bit of latitude given to where things like manifests and uploaded files live. I didn''t get much guidance from the docs when I first set things up so I mostly poked at things until the worked. Take a look at the following and let me know if this looks reasonable; if so, it

Apologize ahead of time if this has been asked before. Without using external commands, can puppet back-up files and directories to the puppetmaster server? If I delete or change a file, I can back the file, but all I want to do is to take a snap-shot of some configurations. If I can''t do it natively, has anyone created a script that does so using external commands (such as tar, gzip,

There''s a problem installing puppet on Solaris 10 -- in this situation, we aren''t really doing anything with puppet there. The version we''re using is: ruby 1.8.7 (2011-02-18 patchlevel 334) [i386-solaris2.9] Here''s the first error: # gem update puppet > > Updating installed gems > > Updating puppet > > Building native extensions. This

Hello community, We are running puppetmaster 0.22.3 with 45 servers attached and we are seeing a lot of messages that say: (err): Could not describe /ssh/sshd_config.RedHat: End of file reached: We were seeing a lot of this with 0.22.1 as well. Interestingly, during the stretch where we were running 0.22.2 (most of April until 2 days ago) we didn''t see this error at all or very

Hello! By default puppet node connects to server periodically and looks if there is something execute. I''m wondering is it possible to make puppet clients not connect to server themselves? So that it would be possible to update a node only with puppetrun nodename. --- WBR, Sergey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users"

And someone goes and redesigns the look and operation of the Trac. Quite noice, but a couple of comments: * The main toolbar ("Wiki", "Documentation", "Timeline") ends up under the puppet logo on the left hand side, which is a pest. * I can''t click on any link, text box, or button in the main part of the page. All of the navigation links work fine, and I

Hi, Since I''ve installed ruby and ruby-gems from source, then installed facter and puppet as gems, I don''t get the usual startup scripts shipped with RPMs. Rebuilding the ruby RPM is painful, mostly because Red Hat (and pretty much every vendor) have this tendency to include random files and patch the living daylights out of a perfectly good source package so that converting

Hi, This is totally off-topic (it''s an rpm/rpmbuild problem), but I want to get to a point where I''m installing and configuring munin-node with puppet. To do that, I need a clean, standardized way of installing munin-mode on CentOS (RHELish) boxes. I could install munin-node from source via puppet and probably make enough edits that all the files end up in reasonable locations

Can anyone who''s having this problem please send details? I''m trying to reproduce it -- I''ve got 5 clients concurrently retrieving 200 10k files made of random binary, and I can''t get any corruption or memory growth at all. Is everyone experiencing the problem using Mongrel? Webrick? What versions of ruby? Are only big files affected? Small files?

Hi all, I need to write an aptitude provider for Debian. How should it differ from apt? Can I just s/apt/aptitude/g, or do I need to do something else? Any other weird behaviours I should look for or whatever? I''ll make it a subclass of apt (and since Deb seems to specify aptitude as the default now, maybe apt should subclass aptitude), so any dpkg answerfile work should work on

Hi, I''m just starting to get a puppet config system running on OS X 10.6 and have hit a snag. I am attempting to create a user and get an error on the client :- (//User[ladmin]) Failed to retrieve current state of resource: undefined method ''<<'' for nil:NilClass The manifest I am using is the output of ''ralsh user ladmin'' on another 10.6 box

I''ve been thinking about how to make Puppet a killer app, and I think there is one specific thing that could be done to help make that happen: People using Puppet now to consistently state what they *really* wish Puppet could do for them -- the recent thread around Puppet on Windows is in that vein, but it''s not specific enough. For example, I''d like to know what

I''d like to keep the desired and current states of a machine regarding it''s configuration. Sometimes a chain of administrative commands is needed to get a special thing (re)configured on a machine, e.g. reconfig of a suncluster. This cannot be done with puppet in an easy way. In the majority of cases, these commands change appropriate files, which reflect the current

SLES 10 clients keeps removing and re-adding accounts to groups. Can''t use this product in production as a result, I''d like to use it though. Using clients 25.1 with master 25.1 This keeps re-occuring with every single puppet client run: Nov 24 09:57:09 puppetd[26915]: (//unixuser/User[jdoe]/groups) groups changed ''wheel'' to ''unixadm,wheel''

Hi, [Note: I''ve been saving up my puppet questions for a free moment so pardon my bombardment of the list] What''s the best way to set up mounts and mountpoints with puppet? I am currently using something like: ---- class software_depot_client { # create NFS mountpoint file { "/mnt/nfs/repository": path => "/mnt/nfs/repository", ensure =>

Is there a "puppetized" way for puppet to create a resource file from an existing crontab? Here''s an example of what has worked for me: $ crontab -l * * * * * date > /tmp/date.log $ ralsh cron Could not run: You must specify a name or title for resources $ crontab -l | awk ''!/^ *#/ {print "# Puppet Name: item-" NR ; print } '' | crontab $

Hi, Say I''ve got a directory full of stale Tomcat temp files of the form: /usr/local/blackboard/apps/tomcat/work/Catalina/localhost/webapps_assessment/strts6866.tmp and I want to delete any files that haven''t changed in a week and not keep any backup. Should this get rid of them: tidy {

Hi all, puppet --genmanifest : Should this not introspect all the packages on my system? I ran it just now on ubuntu intrepid, puppet 24.7, and it just gave me puppet related things... Is it not possible to configure a system using the packages I want, and then run puppet --genmanifest to retrieve the puppet code to reproduce it? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You

Hi all Here is the 0.24.7 release - the last of the 0.24.x branch and codenamed Gonzo. You can download it here: http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-0.24.7.tgz Big tickets items in the release are: * Manifest documentation http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetManifestDocumentation This new functionality creates documentation from marked up manifests and modules and

I am trying to create, display and edit a referenced object''s text field on the same view as my root object. I have just about come to the conclusion that whoever invented of taglibs should be shot. quiz.preamble_presentation references a Presentation object instance. The Presentation object contains a property called text, among others. The generated form will display the ID of the