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Hi, Gang.. The Subject: line says it all. My organisation is looking at selecting a configuration management system. Any comments about why you chose Puppet over other options would be very helpful to us. Cheers, Tomcat --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this

Hello, I''ve recently begun looking at Puppet as an alternative to Cfengine and I have a couple of questions. 1) Besides the information posted on the Puppet website, are there any critical differences between Puppet and Cfengine? 2) Does Puppet allow for client-specific file text manipulation. For instance, in Cfengine I can add a line of text to a file if the line doesn''t

Hi all, I''d appreciate your help improving our understanding of what the community is most looking for from Puppet, how Reductive Labs manages it, and how best to provide services around the project. Toward this end, we''ve created a short survey (it should take you less than ten minutes): http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/95175/q1-2008-puppet-user-survey Please take a few

Hello there. Just to let you know i have just put in production mode puppet on 41 freeBSD 4.7 virtual servers (yes not real servers but "jailed ones"). I had some little problems with facter at first but i have manualy upgraded the servers that where affected by the little "facter does not read his facts" problem i had. I should have missed something in my deploiement.

I have the following in my site.pp node "pclient.example.com" inherits default {} When I try to start puppetmaster it gives me the following error Starting puppetmaster: Syntax error at ''pclient.example.com'' at /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp:24 When I change the node declaration to this node ''pclient.example.com'' inherits default {} puppetmaster

I''m very interested in the way that puppet appears to be able to generate nagios configurations though I can''t seem to find any documenation on how it works: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/naginator is clearly a placeholder page... Meanwhile the various pieces of info at links such as: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/TypeReference#nagios-host are just teasing me.

I know this is a basically meaningless milestone, but for some reason it means something to me. For the first time (as far as I know), #puppet on irc.freenode.net has more users than #cfengine: 21 vs. 19. Admittedly, that''s a low user count for #cfengine, but I''ll take it. :) -- Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or

I''m not sure if this is the way things are supposed to happen but, when I specify a directory with recursion and md5 checksums, the directory itself is checksummed and assumed to have changed. Of course, if anything in the directory changed, the directory checksum will change. What I would like to do is to manipulate all of the files in a directory, but ignore the directory itself.

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

Hello... I am looking to replace my current config file management solution with puppet. I looked at both cfengine and puppet and neither seem to have a "diff" option. as in: configfile { "/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf": source => "/httpd/httpd.conf" } will install a httpd.conf file. What I would like is to be able to see a unified diff of the

I am a little new to managing large numbers of CentOS/RHEL servers and was wondering what you experienced sysadmins prefer, Spacewalk or Puppet? Thanks, Dan Burkland -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091103/de975d32/attachment-0004.html>

Hi, I just want to know what the state of the Debian packages is? I''ve downloaded (and is currently testing with) the packages from http:// reductivelabs.com/downloads/packages/Debian/ They seem to miss some important stuff such as init scripts and puppetrun, and they hasn''t all the dependencies defined (eg. ruby). From the info part of the packages I can''t see

On 12/05/16 10:21, James Hogarth wrote: > On 12 May 2016 at 08:22, G?tz Reinicke - IT Koordinator < > goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> we see a growing need for a better Configuration management for our >> servers. >> >> Are there any known good resources for a comparison of e.g. Puppet, >> Chef, Ansible etc?

Hi, I''m in the process of evaluating puppet and cfengine for a rollout on a mix of in-house servers and managed customer servers. I''ve always been a pro-cfengine man, and it''s already running on a small setup of 5 machines. But even though I have pretty clear idea of how I should proceed building the system, I''m intimidated by the vast amount of

I just started messing with puppet, and i love it! I have used cfengine in the past, and were in process of planing to replace cfengine now. One thing thats stumped me this weekend and i know i read your working on virtal defines so i can''t do that, but how can i get arond this issue with the curretn setup. I think i am missing something fundamentally simple here. i have this

On Sep 8, 2006, at 5:58 AM, Thorsten Sandfuchs wrote: > hio, > as I have some huge files to distribute and md5-sum-checking takes > SOME time > for them, I''m trying to switch to mtime/timestamps, but got no > luck. Regularly > the mtime seems to change and additionally the md5sums generate > themselves > anyway. I''m pretty sure that the file

Hi all, I fear this discussion will quickly devolve into a recursive flame- fest, but it needs to be broached, so here we go. Note that I kind of think this is more of dev topic than users, but I want to make sure everyone knows the conversation is happening and can easily participate. This is also likely to be the first of a series of conversations I''ll be starting to try to

Hi Does anyone know if the following is supposed to work? ------------------------------------------------------ site.pp case $psi_rank { Devel: { import "Devel/psi_gfa/*" import "Devel/nodes" import "Devel/os/yum_update" } Prod: { import "Prod/psi_gfa/*" import "Prod/nodes" import

Puppet is failing to restart lighttpd using the Debian init script. Both the default action of stop/start and using the reload action, which basically does the same thing, fail. It seems to be a filehandle problem. Changing the execute method in service.rb to redirect stdout to /dev/null allows the daemon to restart. Otherwise, I end up with a zombie process and according to strace, ruby

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