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I have a requirement to manage membership to groups in /etc/group. These members do not need to be virtual users. I don''t see a way to do this through virtual users @group. How are others doing this? -- 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

Hi, I have a Puppet Enterprise (2.0) puppetmaster running with Foreman, and having trouble getting it working as an External Node Classifier. In short, if I manually add a test client into site.pp, it will retrieve the proper catalog / classes, but I would like to avoid having to do that. I''m also using environments (production/testing/ development) as well, but think I have most of

Is there a way to copy file(s) from the Puppet agent back to the master? I know it sounds silly but that''s what I need to do. This is one of the s/w-tag files, gets created/modified automatically by the software installation job and then I want to overwrite the tag files on two other agents with this one. Is there a why for doing this? Cheers, San -- You received this message because

Hi, I have a running puppetmaster with nginx and passenger and ruby 1.9.2. When i do puppet cert --trace --list . i get the following error. /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/puppet-2.7.9/lib/puppet/application/ cert.rb:43:in `block (2 levels) in <class:Cert>'' /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/puppet-2.7.9/lib/puppet/application.rb: 357:in `block (2 levels) in parse_options''

Hi All, I''ve downloaded a Puppet module and I''m trying to add a parameter to it by editing lib/puppet/type/<resource>.rb. I simply added: newproperty(:pcfree) do desc "My description here" end In the corresponding file in lib/puppet/provider, I do something with :pcfree. Whenever I call the resource from Puppet with my new parameter, it keeps

I read the guide at http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/scope_and_puppet.htmland others'' mail, i am a little confused now, below is my understanding: 1. top scope only refers to site.pp, not include node definitions and facts. 2. in puppet class, using variables not local, must specify the namespace, like $class::variable, if it''s a top scope variable or a fact variable or a

HI all, I am currently setting up a HA devops configuration using puppet. I want to be able to run a single puppet master as the CA and the rest act as peering puppet masters. I have each puppet master running on passenger and I am proxying the SSL requests to the CA server following: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/scaling_multiple_masters.html#option-2-redirect-certificate-traffic

I have the following exec in my manifest : exec { some_exec: path => [ "/bin","/usr/bin","/usr/local/bin" ], command => "EXECUTE COMMAND 1", onlyif => "EXECUTE COMMAND 2", logoutput => "on_failure" } I want that the "COMMAND 1" should be executed by "USER 1" and "COMMAND 2"

Anyone know where I can find a good chrooted named module for centos? Named as chroot is ugly... soft and hard links everywhere... Doug -- 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 from this group, send email to

I want to use Puppet and Facter on a machine where I don''t have sudo or root access privileges. I won''t be using Puppet for anything that requires that level of access, so I should be OK if I can get it on the box. Any advice on how to proceed? Currently the Facter installer complains that it doesn''t have privileges for /usr/bin/facter. I assume Puppet will have the same

I''ve upgraded to puppet v2.6.2 on ubuntu (clients and server) and now I get this error messages related to pluginsync: info: Retrieving plugin err: /File[/var/lib/puppet/lib]: Failed to generate additional resources using ''eval_generate'': wrong header line format err: /File[/var/lib/puppet/lib]: Could not evaluate: wrong header line format Could not retrieve file

Hello, I''ve just installed Ruby, Facter and Puppet from source (versions listed below) and am getting the following error, when trying to run Puppet 2.6.3: [root@localhost puppet]# ruby --version ruby 1.9.2p0 (2010-08-18 revision 29036) [i686-linux] [root@localhost puppet]# ruby -ropenssl -e "puts :installed" installed [root@localhost puppet]# ruby -rxmlrpc/client -e "puts

Hello Everyone, I''m still pretty new with puppet so please bare with me. I tried searching and I''m pretty sure I''ve ready my answer but I''m not sure if I''m going down the right path just yet. My scenario is this: I have 4 environments, Dev, Test, QA, Prod. Each of these environments lives in 2 sites, LA and NY. I have 5 applications that are site and

Hi all I started researching on puppet and decided I''ll try it out on Vmware Workstation using Ubuntu 10.04. So I''m trying to do the simplest puppet install pattern as outlined in http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Simplest_Puppet_Install_Pattern. For now, I''m trying to test puppetd and puppetmasterd on the same machine. I start puppetmaster and

Is it possible, using puppet, to configure an EC2 instance so that when it boots it attaches & mounts an EBS volume? If so, what steps would one take to achieve this? -- 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 from this group, send email to

Seeing ''SSL_read'' errors being logged by puppetmaster. Anyone know what causes these or how to correct? They''re sporadic, not happening all the time or on all puppet runs. /var/log/puppet/masterhttp.log [2011-07-25 10:00:10] ERROR OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: SSL_read:: internal error /var/log/messages Jul 25 10:00:10 cmd-box puppet-master[22572]: SSL_read:: internal error

Hi, I have a couple of FreeBSD-servers that I try to manage using puppet. I''m just trying it out at the moment and have just deployed 5 new boxes (from PXE and scripted installation so supposedly they are all identical except for the name and ip-addresses). On two of the servers I get the error-messages at the bottom of the post. The first error- message I get every time I run puppet on

Hello, I randomly errors like this: Fri Jul 22 09:01:41 +0000 2011 //SERVER.fqdn/Puppet (err): Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: end of file reached Fri Jul 22 09:01:41 +0000 2011 //SERVER.fqdn/Puppet (notice): Using cached catalog Fri Jul 22 09:01:41 +0000 2011 //SERVER.fqdn/Puppet (err): Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run Here are the versions: puppetmaster

Hi I''m having some trouble with the following setup: node ''serverA'' inherits server-defaults { include myApp::install } node ''server-defaults'' inherits default { $sudoenv = ''custom_server'' } node default { $sudoenv = ''default'' include sudoers::config } class sudoers::config { file {

kindly provide me link for documents for puppet other than puppet lab I am specifically looking at how to create a module/manifest -- 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 from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.