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I''m trying to install the tomcat5.5 package under Debian Etch. The problem is that the init.d script for tomcat5.5 uses "su .... &" to run some things (I think logging processes?) This causes puppetd to hang in its run, because the subprocess never returns (due to open filehandles?). Does anybody have any idea what I can do to get around this? The same

I just updated to 0.22.2 and am running into a strange issue. I''m starting puppetmaster, and seeing this in my error log: err: /puppetconfig/reporting/File[/Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/var/reports]/ensure: change from absent to directory failed: Cannot create /Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/var/reports; parent directory /Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/var does not exist err:

Hello dear list. First of all thanks to all the developers for the great work on puppet. After using it for a while, there is not better tool to manage a network! I have a problem with the $processor fact, which seems to be either not there or ignored at all. I try to implement package deployment for the Macs (Intel vs. PowerPC) as described here:

Quick logrotate question for the group. To comply with a PHB mandate, I need to keep our apache logs for a minimum of 2 years, and will be periodically required to hand over chunks of the logs from specific dates/times. While extending the timeframe of logrotate is easy, I've found that there's no elegant solution in the RH/CentOS logrotate for appending dates to the filename. I'm

Hi all, Today I came across something that I consider a bug. Would like to hear your opinions. Facts: - Using 0.22.1 from Debian Unstable on a Debian Testing machine - Recipes work on other machines The recipe in question is: # Keep home-dirs in sync file { "/home/tim": recurse => true, source =>

Hi all, Just wondering if anyone is going to FOSDEM 2008 this year. I know Luke can''t come (which is his loss, more beer for me :P) but that doesn''t mean we can''t have a little meetup amongst puppeteers! Just to see some faces behind the nicks and emailaddresses and the like. Like last year, I''m planning on only visiting one day, probably the Sunday. Anyone

Hi all, I''m having trouble with a particular recipe, but I don''t know which one! I''m not getting an error message, puppetd simply hangs (does not respond, needs a kill -9 to stop). These same recipes work correctly on other nodes (no problems there). Now I wanted to find the exact line that causes the problem, but I seem to be unable to make puppetd log the resource

Hello, Does any have Apache 2.0.49 with tomcat 5.5.4 and jakarta-tomcat-connectors-jk2-2.0.4 working??? Apache was allready installed with CentOS 3 I installed tomcat with it's tar.gz file and instalation was good. but I installed first the j2sdk-1_4_2_06-linux-i586 java version... everything was OK... but when I try to install the jakarta-tomcat-connector I get an error when executing the

Hi all, Just reading through Luke''s interview on computerworld.com.au and I came across this statement: "This topic comes up on the list periodically, however, and most people are very tight-lipped about what they''re doing with Puppet." Being the chattermouth that I am, I''d like to take this opportunity to tell you all what we''re (that is, my

Hi all, To start, using puppet 0.25.5 on Debian Lenny with Ruby 1.8.7.72-3lenny1. I''m giving ruby a shot and am trying to build my own types for several applications and modify available types found on the ''net for our usage. However, I keep running into problems with the default provider it selects. Is there a document somewhere that describes how the default provider is

This is a hypothetical question that could actually happen: Suppose a root pool is a mirror of c0t0d0s0 and c0t1d0s0 and for some reason c0t0d0s0 goes off line, but comes back on line after a shutdown. The primary boot disk would then be c0t0d0s0 which would have much older data than c0t1d0s0. Under normal circumstances ZFS would know that c0t0d0s0 needs to be resilvered. But in this case

Hi, I''m new to Puppet, but it looks very good, so far. We are going to use it for a multi-tier (DEV, QA, staging, production) environment which is consists of web, app, and database servers. I have a couple of suggestions for the Puppet documentation that may save others some time. First, it seems node names MUST be FQDNs (hostname and hostname. will not work). Since we are not using

Hi all, In a fit of helpfulness and working on my IRC-to-Wiki-conversion, I created a place where to add tips for new users. I couldn''t find it anywhere else on the wiki, except for a primer in the documentation. Feel free to add to it (and please do!!): http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/ConvertToPuppet -- Gegroet, Tim

Hi all, We were just talking on IRC about a meet-up for the interested parties on Saturday of FOSDEM in Brussels. Although it''s a bit difficult to pinpoint any spot at this time, we''d thought it would be nice to try to meet up at 13:00 at the CentOS+Fedora room. When we''re there, we''ll see if we''re welcome or not :) If you got any better ideas, now is

We are happily running xen on a server which uses a SATA driver (thank you all you xenists for producing such a great product). However, we are creating a custom kernel for a domU. When we attempt to run mkinitrd we get: No module ata_piix found for kernel 2.6.11.12-xenUIPSec, aborting. This is the SATA driver. In the past (xen 2.0.5), we simply ran make ARCH=xen menuconfig and told it to

Hi, I''m working on a method to manage packages which require a reboot after being installed. I''m curious how other people are handling this problem. Consider the resource: pkg_deploy { "MacOSXUpdCombo10.4.9Intel.dmg": alias => macosx1049 } I''d like to only install the package under if the following conditions are met: - No user is logged into the

Hello, I would like to find a few to use files available in a module for the execution of a particular resource, without having to stage the file explicitly onto the client and possibly having to clean it up afterwards. (This could also apply to content coming from templates.) The use-cases I have in mind are: running a SQL file (to set up some content in a database), extracting an archive

Here is my situation: 1. We use Active directory (LDAP) to store all user info which is retrieved from linux 2. A home directory is not created until the first time the user logs into the linux system I am using the ssh_authorized_key type to push out my ssh keys to every system. However, because I haven''t logged into every system at least once. Puppet errors out due to a missing

Hello All, I''m using the "Branch Testing" approach documented at https://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/BranchTesting and am seeing an issue with certificates. On all clients, I can run puppetd --masterport=8141 successfully but see the following error when I run against the default (8140) port: err: Could not retrieve configuration: Certificates were not trusted:

The below seems to give me several minutes of 15-60% cpu usage. As far as I can tell there doesn''t seem to be anything really wrong with my configuration. Anyone have any idea why this might be the case? I also get about 6% memory usage. This is a 3.0 ghz Xeon with 2 gigs of memory. class apache2 { file { "/etc/apache2": recurse =>