Displaying 20 results from an estimated 2000 matches similar to: "Solid How-To"
2007 Aug 29
2
Ideas about learning
I''m looking for some ideas about how to learn how to use puppet. One
of my main concerns is dorking up the machine I''m testing it on.
For this I''m using a VM. So that concern is mainly taken care of.
If some of you experienced puppet users where going to do it all over,
what parts would you try to learn first?
I have successfully been able to get a cronjob added
2007 Jul 03
7
CA migration
Anyone ever migrated the puppetca to a different host? What are the steps
that are involved?
2007 Apr 10
16
Import all modules?
Is there a way to tell the puppetmaster that I want to import all modules
rather than listing each one individually?
2006 Sep 15
8
file: target generates error
file { "/var/log/syslog":
target => "/var/log/messages"
}
generates the following error:
err: //henson/stanford/syslog/file=/var/log/syslog: Failed to retrieve
current state: undefined method `should'' for false:FalseClass
2006 Sep 14
12
Specify and respecify
Hello Puppet users,
I had talked with Luke about this scenario and was wondering how others
would/are handling something like this.
Imagine a scenario where all servers will have a specific postfix
configuration except for a server or two or three. So, you want to define
a file "/etc/postfix/main.cf" and specify the source from your dist tree.
But for those exceptional servers,
2007 Mar 29
7
rrdgraphs?
Anyone using the rrdgraph report on the puppetmaster on Debian stable? I''m
trying to get this working and not getting far. I even took rrdtool and
librrd0-dev from backports and I still get the same problem. It seems that
the rrdfiles are being somewhat created, but nevertheless, the puppetmaster
isn''t happy and keeps spewing:
err: Report rrdgraph failed: Could not create
2007 Feb 22
4
Assistance Requested
Hello,
I am currently experiencing a bit of a quandry with how to specify default configuration applications to generic nodes.
Here is an example setup:
Classes:
Class A
Class B inherits Class A
Class C inherits Class B
Problem:
I have unique hosts (nodes) X and Y and a bunch of other standard hosts. I would like X and Y to be able to override attributes in Class C (thus inherit class C) but
2007 Apr 18
2
Could not describe errors
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
2007 Jul 05
3
Does puppet have a way to disable a user?
Besides using an exec line with a case statement(to determine the specific os''s disable command), does puppet come with a buit in method to disable a user account?
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2006 Nov 11
5
Ubuntu experience
What is everyone''s experience with Puppet on Ubuntu? Does it work as
expected? Any caveats or oddities?
-- DK
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Digant C Kasundra <digant@stanford.edu>
Technical Lead, ITS Unix Systems and Applications, Stanford University
2007 Dec 11
12
puppet seems to be restarting itself very often
I turned on reporting the other day and I''m seeing alot of these when puppet
runs. Especially during times when nothing is going on (middle of the night
etc)
Tue Dec 11 12:34:48 -0500 2007
//base/puppet/puppet::client/Service[puppet]/ensure (notice): ensure changed
''stopped'' to ''running''
It''s also quite odd that puppet when it runs it thinks
2007 May 15
5
Puppet performance
--On Monday, May 14, 2007 9:16 PM -0700 Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com> wrote:
> ObPuppet: we ramping up our deployment this week to around 200 hosts. So
> far everything has been going smoothly.
We don''t have nearly as many and yet, we see occasional errors ("End of
file reached") which seems to indicate the network cutting out. I can''t
imagine what would
2007 Jul 13
7
new puppet providers
I might have the terminology wrong, but how to a give new puppet
providers to the puppet clients?
I''m thinking a provider is the thing the puppet client uses to
implement a task that the master has given it.
Am I way off here?
Mike B.
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2007 May 07
68
Puppet Best Practice
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
2007 Dec 20
5
Apache2 module -- feedback appreciated
Hey folks,
I''ve just uploaded an apache2 module[1] to our Google Code
repository[2]. It''s based largely on the recipe available on the
Puppet trac[3], but with a fair amount of modification and
generalization... Basically, it provides abstractions for config file
snippets, site definitions, and apxs modules -- and then "basic" and
"debian"
2007 Apr 05
4
Documentation conventions
I think some conventions are in order to help with the documentation work.
(1) As suggested by someone else earlier, I think we need a clear way to
mark areas needing fixes with FIXMEs.
(2) Topics under discussion or drafting should indicate such, perhaps at
the top of the document, with a reference to the thread. On page comments
should have a clearly designated area at the bottom of the
2007 May 08
13
Override to unspecify
In the normal override method, you can change the value of a parameter, but
can you unset a parameter?
file { "/etc/somefile":
mode => 644,
owner => "dude"
}
File ["/etc/somefile"] { mode => unset } ??
2007 Mar 16
19
Terminology
Hello folks,
I''ve blended/updated the Glossary of Terms
(<http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/GlossaryOfTerms>). It seems
the definition of "manifests" is a bit different amongst members.
Some people consider a "manifest" to be a configuration file written in
puppet, e.g. any .pp file. But at my organization, we''ve considered the
totality
2007 Sep 28
3
Host groups config in puppet & User Management.
Hi,
I have installed Puppet puppet-0.23.2-1.el4 &
puppet-server-0.23.2-1.el4.
Now trying to configure. I have a basic config which changes the sudo
permission of the file.
Currently I am using the puppet server as client. Now I wanted to add
all my hosts some linux some unix. So was looking for a config syntax
whioh can create groups.
Like IT = [ host-1, host2, shost3 ]
2007 Mar 19
7
Monitoring puppet
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Hi *!
How do you monitor when the last puppet transaction was successful on a node?
I''m searching for something easy like a timestamp, so I can put a nagios watch
on this.
Regards, David
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