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Is there a recommended way to set $FACTERLIB so that Puppet will be able to access custom facts when running as a Red Hat service? If I export $FACTERLIB=/var/puppet/facts and then run Puppet manually I have no problems, but I''m not sure how I should be setting $FACTERLIB when Puppet is running automatically. Cheers, James

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

I''ve added some custom facts to my Puppet setup but they aren''t being displayed by facter. I''ve tested them and they work correctly when run manually (and I''ve also tried a number of those listed on the wiki) but they aren''t included in facter''s output. I am using the default settings for factdest and factpath and the facts are being copied

I''ve checked out the page on adding custom facts for Facter and I see that there are a number of ways to do this. Is there a preferred method of setting system-wide facts? In this case, I''d like to set a "Location" fact which represents the data centre a server is in. Cheers, James *********************************************************************************

I work at a large financial institution (AXA) and we have a large number of DMZs for our partner and internet-facing servers. The only access to the various DMZs is via SSH and no DMZ-initiated connections are allowed back to the internal network. I''d consider putting a Puppet server in the DMZ but no communication is allowed between DMZs either. Has anyone tried tunnelling Puppet

Hello all, How are you using the sshkey type? Are you using it to list hosts and keys in a class that nodes include in order to manage /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts or something else? How does any of this relate to the sshrsakey and sshdsakey facts on the host? I read some stuff about this on the Virtual Resources page but it''s too vague for my simple mind and I''d be reluctant to use

Hi, is there a way to make sure a file is installed only if a certain package is installed on the client? e.g. I want to distribute the client key for NX via puppet. However I only want to install these files if package ''freenx'' is installed on the client. I tried adding ''require => package["freenx"]'' but then puppetd complains it

Is there a repository of Facter plugins that people have made? I''m working on a few that i wouldn''t mind sharing when complete.

Here at the University of Sydney I''m trying to give Puppet a go. I haven''t made it past first base yet unfortunately. We run RHEL 4 here, for the most part, and the install guide at http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/InstallationGuide says that you should use the vendor''s Ruby, but Red Hat''s current version of Ruby is 1.8.1-07 - is this new

Hi all, I''m looking at changing the operatingsystemrelease fact for Red Hat. Linux currently just uses the kernel release as the operating system release, but I''ve got a client who wants the release to have both the specific distro (e.g., AS or EL) and the release (e.g., 3 or 4). Will this particularly annoy anyone? Anyone want to help make the release string work on

Howdy folks, $ cd /opt/mirrors/centos/4.2 $ find -type f | grep "\.rpm" | while read i; do rpm -K "$i"; done | egrep -v ": \(sha1\) dsa sha1 md5 gpg OK\$" centosplus/SRPMS/reiserfs-utils-3.6.19-2.1.src.rpm: sha1 md5 OK extras/SRPMS/drbd-0.7.14-1.centos4.src.rpm: sha1 md5 OK extras/SRPMS/ipvsadm-1.24-6.src.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS:

Posting for a friend Begin forwarded message: From: "Geier, Florian" <florian.geier08@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:florian.geier08@imperial.ac.uk>> Subject: Fwd: readBin fails to read large files Date: September 1, 2011 4:10:53 PM GMT+01:00 To: Begin forwarded message: Date: 1 September 2011 16:01:45 GMT+01:00 Subject: readBin fails to read large files Dear all, I am trying

Dears , I have the follow error when i want too use function abcnon of package bootstrap : Warning message: Package `bootstrap' contains no R code in: library(bootstrap) Can you help me ! Thx. AXA Corporate Solutions Nouveaux Produits Nour-Eddine HAKIM 52 Rue d'Amsterdame - 75009 Paris - France Tel (+33 1) 56 92 97 48 Fax (+33 1) 56 92 97 40 E-Mail : noureddine.hakim at

Just wondering if anyone has built (or found) Puppet rpm packages for RHEL4 x86_64 version. James ********************************************************************************* Important Note This email (including any attachments) contains information which is confidential and may be subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, distribute or copy this

Hi, i export data from an csv file like this :  Data <- read.csv2("c:/Art.csv",sep=",") # import data into R > Data <- Data [1:5,1:5]# extracting the first 5 rows and columns > Data   Policy.Number AXA.Entity Country LoB ccy.data 1         6e+13        BNL     BNL   P      EUR 2         6e+13        USA     BNL   P      EUR 3         6e+13         UK     BNL  

These seems to me to be the first message in the series and provides a really good summary of the changes at Red Hat which seem to be making life a lot more difficult for CentOS. Just figured I'd pull it out of that thread and change the subject line. Below Johnny's email I've copied another from the original thread, written by Lamar Owen, which gives some good explanation on how Red

I''ve just noticed that Puppet is failing to automatically apply changes when running as a Red Hat service. Changes get applied with no problems or errors when I run Puppet manually with "puppetd --test" but fail with a "Could not apply complete configuration: Parsed Providers must define a default target" error in /var/log/messages when the service runs automatically

I''m in the process of creating Puppet classes to install Munin via Yum on my RHEL4 hosts. Before Yum can be used as a provider, it obviously needs to be installed. I''ve tried requring the Yum package in the Munin classes but I still get an error about "Provider ''yum'' is not functional on this platform". Is there an easy way to require the yum class

Hi all, While I can understand the desire to customise the default Trac site, the new website design appears to me to be a step back in terms of usability in two areas. Firstly, the top fixed navigation banner and bottom Trac banner take up valuable screen space no matter when you have scrolled to in the page. I also find them quite distracting from the content that I''m trying to read.

I''m trying to use a "case defined" statement to configure Munin to automatically create plugin links for packages that are defined by Puppet but the behaviour seems to be unpredictable. I have a similar setup for Samba which works, but the Postfix one doesn''t and I can''t see any difference between them. Can some explain to me how "case