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Hi, I was at the Puppet talk at Oscon and I would like to try using Puppet for PXE on RHEL machines and I was wondering if there are standard minimal Kickstart recipes from which Puppet can then take over. Thanks, Jason van Zyl jason at maven.org

As I sit here staring at my manifests (and pondering a module to control Glassfish), I''m pondering the best way to do a first-run of puppet to get the initial repositories and puppet configuration downloaded. My theory is that I''ll modify rc.local (or replace firstboot-tui, we don''t use it with automated builds) to run puppetd twice - once to request the certificate,

Ok, I''m new to puppet, but I''ve got everything working for my setup. Almost. I''m trying to set up a new server, using cobbler, and then puppet. CentOS 6.2 Puppet 2.7.11 Cobbler 2.0.11 I have things set up so I can use kickstart to install the server on boot. It installs puppet and facter from the puppetlabs repos and the snippet

Is there an easy way to convert a puppet client into being a puppet master? Here''s the scenario. I''m using puppet to configure all my systems, and would like it to be able to deploy a new puppet master as well. We have systems worldwide so having local puppet masters is very desirable for fault tolerance. So Kickstart (via cobbler) installs a puppet client during the initial

How can I do this?: foo { name: $bar => "frob" } define foo( $bar = false, $baz = false ) { if #$bar and $baz both defined $cmd = "frobnicate --bar=$bar --baz=$baz ${name}" else if #$bar defined $cmd = "frobnicate --bar=$bar ${name}" else if #$baz defined $cmd = "frobnicate --baz=$baz ${name}" else

Hi all, my name is Arnau Bria and I''m a sys admin in a center where we must deal with hundred hosts. We''re currently working with quattor, but it''s too complex for our purposes, so I''m looking for new admin tool. I''ve been playing with CFengine for few days (2 or 3) and I''ve seen some limitations that makes me thing that CFE is not our

Hi all, I''ve noticed that facter version superior from epel do not display lsbmajdistrelease fact: # facter lsbmajdistrelease 5 # rpm -qa|grep facter facter-1.5.5-1.el5 # cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga) # facter lsbmajdistrelease # cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga) # rpm -qa|grep facter

Hello all - (Please forgive me if I sent this msg twice, first one didn't seem to go through) I searched through the archives and did not see anything about this (along with google), but if I missed something please don't hesitate to send me some links. Basically I have hit a problem that I cannot figure out at this point and seemed to have ran out of ideas via Google or the

Hi all, anyone has created the rpm packages of new versions for el4? only 5/6 at http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/ TIA, Arnau -- 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. For

Hi all, from http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/language_tutorial.html this syntax should be ok: file { [ ''foo'', ''bar'', ''foobar'' ]: owner => root, group => root, mode => 600, } I''ve this in my code: file { [ ''/software/atlas'' , ''/software/cms'' ,

Hi all, I''m doing a new install of my puppet server and I''m doing it like: 1.-) adding epel repo: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#howtouse 2.-) yum -y install puppet-server 3.-) rm -rf /etc/puppet 4.-) copy my old puppet conf (from puppet-0.24.5 to 0.24.6) mv /etc/puppet.old /etc/puppet 5.-) start puppetmaster: [gridinstall etc]# /etc/init.d/puppetmaster start

Hi all, I''m in the procedure of migrating my old puppet server (puppet-2.6.14-1.el5) with mongrel to a new one (puppet-2.7.14-1.el6.noarch) with passenger. I''m facing a really strange behaviour with the catalog compilation time. I''ve 3 servers: 1.-) Centos 5.8 puppet-2.6.14-1.el5 + rubygem-mongrel-1.0.1-6.el5 Client: Compiled catalog for td055.pic.es in environment

Dear all, I''m a software integrator and i''m currently evaluating Puppet to understand how we can potentially integrate our products with it. I''ve been reading documentation on it and i''m currently installing a Puppet system but i have some questions that i was hoping someone could answer? a) In this page, it says that Puppet Enterprise supports provisioning

Hello, This might be called a core build not completely positive. What i want to do is make a completely customized centos 5.4 unattended CD or DVt not only installs a specific list of apps apps that i want on each system, but configures them automatically perhaps via scripts, and enables or disables services etc. Basically, i want to drop the CD or DVD in a box which will probably not have a

Hey Folks, I''m looking at doing automated provisioning of new servers and am trying to integrate puppet into this process. What I''m wondering though is what the best process for securely registering a new node is. At the moment the first time puppet is run I have to then accept the certificate on the puppetmaster and then run puppet again. What I would like to do is accept the

Hi all, In my systems (SL 6.3, RH like) I''m installing Oracle''s Java. I''m managing the package and several links under /etc/alternatives with puppet, but for configuring it, all the ''official'' docs recommends ''alternatives''. I''ve been looking for some module which already deals with it, but I''ve not found any...

Hi all, I''m facing the bug 5231 when running puppet: host has some repos with many section main defined: # grep main * atrpms.repo:[main] cern-extra.repo:[main] cern-extra-srpms.repo:[main] cern-only.repo:[main] cern-only-srpms.repo:[main] cern.repo:[main] cern-srpms.repo:[main] cern-test.repo:[main] cern-test-srpms.repo:[main] cern-update.repo:[main] cern-update-srpms.repo:[main]

Hi all, following http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/UsingMongrel it says that hostkey/cert must be owned by puppet:puppet. I tried to keep original path (and also owner) of both files and seems to puppet still works... what problems could it cause to my conf? # grep lib mongrel.conf SSLCertificateFile /var/lib/puppet/ssl/certs/gridinstall.pic.es.pem SSLCertificateKeyFile

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, I have this code: define software_mount ($vo_name) { [...] device => "server:/$vo_name", [...] } And I''d like to use $vo_name a type name, so I could use it like: software_mount { [''vo_name1'' , ''vo_name2'', ..., ''vo_nameN'' ] } or even: software_mount { [''vo_name1'' ,