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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

Before I start working on it, I''d like to check if anyone is already using Puppet to manage their servers'' RHN subscriptions. We run a local RHN Proxy server and at the moment, I''m using Kickstart to: - Install Facter and Puppet - Install our organisations trusted RHN SSL certificate - Download and install our RHN configuration file - Import GPG keys - Run rhnreg_ks to

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

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

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''m receiving a "warning: Could not get config; using cached copy" when running "puppetd --test" with the latest puppet and puppet-server RPMs from dlutter''s site. Has anyone else seen this problem or can give me an idea of where to start looking for the problem? James *********************************************************************************

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

Just wondering if anyone is using a backend database other than sqlite, and if so, how easy/hard it was to configure. I''m constantly receiving "SQLite3::BusyException: database is locked..." which I presume is due to sqlite''s relatively coarse locking method. Cheers, James -- Senior Linux Platform Engineer Midrange Services AXA Technology Services - Asia Pacific

Just in case Luke is a bit shy about publicising his own writing, he has an article discussing Puppet on Linux Magazine''s website at http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4141/. ********************************************************************************* Important Note This email (including any attachments) contains information which is confidential and may be subject to legal privilege. If

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

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

I''m in the process of automating the build of Oracle RAC nodes running on Linux but there''s one part I can''t quite get my head around. Oracle RAC requires that the oracle user on each node has an authorized_keys file containing the public keys of the oracle user on every other node. It also requires that the known_hosts file contains host keys for all other nodes to

Has anyone seen the below error before? It appears to only occur when Puppet runs automatically (i.e. a "puppetd --test" doesn''t cause it). I have recently installed new Ruby rpms on the server and I''m guessing that I may have left out something when I built the RPMS (based on FC7 SRPM). > -----Original Message----- > From: report@melrhweb1.nmh-au

Can anyone provide me with an example of using tag values in case or if/else statements in classes? In a discussion about a month ago, Luke suggested using tags is preferable to "if defined" and I''m just wondering how to do this. Cheers, James ********************************************************************************* Important Note This email (including any

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

Just curious as to the functionality of puppet. Does Puppet ensure that a service is up and running as long as puppet is running? Ie, I want to make sure ssh is always running, if for some reason ssh get''s shut down, does puppet start it back up when it does it''s config sync run? Thanks! --------------------------------- Pinpoint customers who are looking for

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

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

Hi all, I''ve been turning my head upside down to find a solution on the following problem: I have a samba fileserver and need to make puppet do: 1. Create groups 2. Create directories with group rights 3. Create an smb-shares.conf from a template that can be included in the main smb.conf. To do this I need to have a combination of sharename and group _and_ create the