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I started getting the following errors from my puppet master: > Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Invalid parameter provider at /some/module/manifests/foo.pp The module would vary, but the error was always the same. I started googling, searching lists, etc. And turned up a whole bucket load of issues that all seem related and are all unresolved:

I''m running puppet on a Centos 5.8 I''m trying to launch puppet as a daemon and it fail silently. --debug provides no help So I tried to strace it, I''m getting this : 1845 close(0) = 0 1845 open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY) = 0 1845 close(1) = 0 1845 open("/dev/null", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND,

Hi Everyone, I am using Puppet 2.6.5 to configure fresh VMs. These VMs have their hostname set to localhost.localdomain initially at boot-time. There is this script file that runs in rc.local and this is what I do inside it 1. I change the hostname from localhost to xxx.xxxxxx using the hostname command. 2. start the puppet agent as /usr/sbin/puppetd --certname=xxx.xxxxxx

Hey everyone, I seem to be running into an error that I can''t find an answer for. I have a simple manifest that installs a few packages and then starts a few services. But it chokes while installing Nginx with this error: err: /Stage[main]//Package[nginx]/ensure: change from purged to present > failed: Could not set ''present on ensure: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII

Hi All, I have a particular requirement where a Puppet managed group needs to have several members that are either local and not managed by Puppet (e.g. mysql) or they reside in LDAP. Apart from running an exec call to "groupmems", is there another way to achieve this? Thanks in advance. Gonzalo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Hi all! I''m new on puppet, and I making my firsts classes. I have defined an example class to install 7Zip on Windows servers, it runs right, but I would like to improve it. The problem is that each time that I execute the "puppet agent --test" it downloads the 7zip.msi file, although it is really installed. So, my question is: Is possible to avoid the download of the

Hi! Is it possible to add a new element to an array inside puppet manifest ? Something like ruby''s array.push(''new_element'') ? -- Best regards, Sergey Arlashin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

Hello every one, I have looked at a lots of threads in the Puppet User group but I did not find a clear answer or explanation how custom functions work.... Here is my current setup : * I have *2 "environments"*. working fine /etc/puppet/environments/production/ /etc/puppet/environments/test/ * I have a version of my function already working in production * According to the

We have an existing "management system" of sorts, based on rdist. I''d like to know the best way to migrate it to using puppet. Currently, we have a local binaries tree, rdisted out nightly. We also make use of rdist''s extra capability to trigger scripts when and if named files are updated. I''m not sure what the best method would be, of converting this to

I can''t seem to find any direct reference yo this in the puppet 3.0 docs so does anyone know if puppet 3.0 can handle yum groupinstalls without resorting to using an exec? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/5QboggWCwh4J. To

Say for example wordpress.com uses puppet to rollout the wordpress software for its customers. During updates to the software, say there are mysql schema updates. i.e. say they have 100K mysql databases, 1 for each blog. And the database for each blog as to be updated to version x which adds a few tables, columns to tables etc. If they have 100K wordpress installations spanning hundreds of

Hi, I installed Open source puppet 3.0 .1in Windows machine and puppet master 3.0.1 in red hat linux machine. I did all the necessary configurations. C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\PuppetLabs\puppet\etc\puppet.conf- > server = test.posmaster.internal Added entry in hosts file. While execute ping command ping (ping test.posmaster.internal) giving response. But while

Could I use my local laptop as a puppet master, and only start up the puppetmaster when I have a change I want to send over to the nodes? Say I only have 1 server, and I don''t want or even need a puppetmaster running all the time. Is this or something close to this type of setup possible? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet

How can I get Puppet to recursively set permissions of a directory, so that the directory and all subdirectories have move 0755 but the files in the directory have mode 0644? When I use the recurse => true option, it sets the files in the directory to executable as well. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view

I''ve setup dynamic environments using git but I''m confused about how environments are actually supposed to be used. We''re a small ISP and have freeradius servers, VPN servers and web servers. I''ve been using environments to enable me as the sysadmin to build and test new manifests/modules before deploying them to our production servers. I have dedicated

Hello everyone, everytime I run on a puppet host: #puppet agent --test I see this commet: info: Applying configuration version ''000001'' then lets say I deploy a new package from my local repository, from which I would get a different configuration version. #puppet agent --test info: Applying configuration version ''000002'' ...question: is there a way to

We''re running puppet 2.7.11 and facter 1.6.1. We''re at a point where we need to start having some custom facts for our environment but we''re not sure the best way to go around it, so I''m looking for feedback from the community. I''ve setup custom facts with facter now and have successfully polled these and also proven that the puppet clients have

I''m not sure at all what''s going on here, but I''ve spent a lot of time reading over the puppet hiera docs and setting everything up, but when I run puppet agent it just seems to ignore the hiera setup completely. Both the puppet master and agent nodes have exactly the same versions of puppet and hiera (installed via the official puppet APT repository). I''ve

Hi Everybody, I have a puppet setup working, but run into issue, which couldn''t figure out how to solve. Say I have puppet agent generated certificate and signed it on puppet master. If somehow puppet agent''s hostname has been changed it will stop communication with puppet master. I would like to know if there is a way to be able to change hostname of puppet agent, without

Hi, I have been trying to improve the coding of some of my puppet recipes and had some trouble so wrote this: http://blog.wl0.org/2011/05/thoughts-about-extlookup-in-puppet/ Comments on the web seem to indicate that extlookup() solves "all problems" but I don''t really see that and hence have proposed a possible way to keep the data closer together and make the extlookup()