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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

Hi, I finally found why ralsh was failing on my systems; Puppet was installed as a gem and ralsh couldn''t find it. I added the preamble from puppetd and it seems to work fine now: ---8<--- snip ---8<--- 65c65,75 < require ''puppet'' --- > > require ''rubygems'' > version = "> 0" > if ARGV.size > 0 &&

Hi, I''m not using puppet in a standard way (ie. in a server/client configuration), just the standalone ''puppet --use-nodes'' command. I''m having problems with the directory structure of modules and using the import feature. My directory infrastructure looks like this: /srv/puppet/facter/... /srv/puppet/manifests/site.pp /srv/puppet/manifests/libs/file.pp

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 =>

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

I''ve started working on a new tool that should help with modifying the configuration of a system under the control of puppet. The tool is called cft (pronounced ''sift'') and is inspired by Gnome''s Sabayon[1] in taht it watches how an admin changes a system and spits out a puppet manifest based on its observations. Cft''s website is

Should a page in the wiki be created to describe a good common.pp? For example, Luke states in the documentation for ''Exec'' that "...there is a strong tendency to use exec to do whatever work Puppet can''t already do; while this is obviously acceptable (and unavoidable) in the short term, it is highly recommended to migrate work from exec to native Puppet types as

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''ve spent the last week or two poring over the documentation and setting up my first puppet environment, and while I''ve figured out how to do most of what I want to do with it, I have some questions that I haven''t been able to find answers for... * Can I match parts of a facter fact? In particular I have hostnames that include the environment as part of the

Hi All, I asked on IRC but didn''t have everything organized and most people seemed busy. Hoping someone can see what I''m missing here. I''m trying to create a network module, used similar to the ''users'' configuration described in the Best Practices document. I have a users module which has that and it works with similar syntax to below. If I

Hello everyone, A long time ago, I posted the Stanford Best Practices and I''ve gone through and updated it today. I''d like to have people go through it and see if we can strip out some Stanford specific stuff and tag this as an official best practice. I think an official best practice will be important as more and more people consider making shareable modules, etc (mostly

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

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 does some one had use the cft tool to build manifest for puppet on the debian os ? I just test it,can''t work ,so sad. huangmingyou --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe

Is there a way to exec something on purge?

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 all, I''m Benjamin Sonntag, I''m one of the AlternC project developpers. AlternC is an opensource mass-hosting control panel software suite based on debian. We are working on a new version of this control panel, and we want to make the less and the best work we can for this version. So, as usual, we are using as much free software as we can, and we started to use puppet for

First of all, in the thread ''Using multiple values for source, for platform/arch/host configs'' Jason said: "I would really appreciate any examples, or further advise anyone has." -> I heartily second that. A good start would be to fill in the cookbook, as Luke has been quietly whispering here and there. ;) Then my other main question at the moment is: what version

Looks like I''ll be in Austin from Tuesday (late) night until Saturday morning. Any Puppeteers in Austin who want to get together? I''ve got vague plans to hang out with whurley, but I''d love to meet a few more people in the community. Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday night should work fine (although not all three). -- Always behave like a duck - keep calm and

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