similar to: Change location of puppet config files

Hey guys, Does anyone know how to change the location of puppet.conf? In my situation, I don''t want to store it under /etc/puppet/puppet.conf or ~/.puppet/puppet.conf -- I''d like to store it under /opt/puppet/puppet.conf in this example. Is there a method without having to symlink, perhaps with an environment variable like PUPPET_CONF=.... ? Thanks for your time, Jason --

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

I am working on setting up a Puppet configuration where some of the data is stored on a DRBD volume. The modules and vardir are stored on the drbd volume. The puppet.conf files point to the drbd volume for vardir. I created a cert for a VIP puppet-master using the puppetca -- create command I had everything working on the primary drbd node, but when I fail over, everything starts up fine, but I

All, I have --confdir=/etc/puppet/common in my /etc/init.d/puppetmaster and /etc/init.d/puppet files, vardir set to /var/lib/puppet in /etc/puppet/common/puppet.conf, and yet, every time I run puppetca it creates /etc/puppet/ssl. Anyone know why? Doug. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email

Hi! I''ve installed puppetmaster 2.7.13 on a server with CentOS 6.2 with a rpm supplied by yum.puppetlabs.com. I''ve setup a apache2 vhost with mod_ssl and passenger. The server is configured to autosign the cert requests. The agent installed on the puppetmaster''s server works fine. I''ve a second agent on a server which can sync with the server too. This

I have a single LB running Apache with mod_proxy in front of a Puppet master. These are the LB and Puppet master configs: <Proxy balancer://puppetmaster> BalancerMember http://192.168.1.10:8140 </Proxy> Listen 8140 <VirtualHost *:8140> SSLEngine on SSLCipherSuite SSLv2:-LOW:-EXPORT:RC4+RSA SSLProtocol -ALL +SSLv3 +TLSv1 SSLCipherSuite

Hello all, I fairly new to puppet and google groups so I''ll apologize in advance for not conforming to "normal" posting methods. I''ve recently installed puppetmaster on a fresh copy of Ubuntu 10.04LTS and after running: sudo puppet --configprint all, I get a long list of parameters and values echoed back to my shell. My question is where do these parameters and

Hi everyone, Please help, I have built a new server and installed puppet (2.6.17) running on RHEL 6.3. It seems that it is not listening on port 8139. iptables -L: Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt

Hello all, I am trying to write a script that will check logs for puppet errors to use in a nagios check. I am checking /var/log/messages (RHEL6) but when puppet runs on its 30 minute interval, nothing gets written to messages. I have also looked at /var/log/puppet/puppet.log but that does not seem to be consistent either: [root@gm10v nagios]# tail /var/log/puppet/puppet.log Wed May 02 14:27:47

hi, i''m trying to set up my puppetmaster infrastructure with multiple puppetservers behind load balancers in each of our datacenters. i''m using 0.24.6. i''ve read the howto on puppet scalability, and i think i''ve got the ssl config working correct, but i''m noticing that when puppetd is used to build a puppetmaster, some of the files in $vardir/ ssl

I am finding that the puppetlabs-apache module is somehow adding 30-60 seconds onto a host''s catalog compile time when the puppetmaster has no other hosts contacting or generating catalogs. The Puppetmaster is setup to use Puppet-2.7.18 - Apache & Passenger. RIght now only 2 hosts are even configured to use this new PM, the PM itself and a Foreman host. With neither hosts

Hi, I have looked all over the place and can''t seem to find a complete answer to my query I am setting up MCollective to run alongside my puppet deployment and am having some problems getting it to play as I want it to Basically, I need to make sure that puppet NEVER makes any changes without them being triggered by someone (I honestly can''t see how anyone would ever want

I have very strange problem. I set up puppet client on serveral servers but have problem with one of them. When I invoke: root@www ~ # puppet agent --server puppetmaster.domain.ltd --test notice: Ignoring --listen on onetime run info: Caching catalog for puppetclient.domain.ltd info: Applying configuration version ''1326444431'' notice: Finished catalog run in

I am attempting to move our test puppet installation from looking for node information in a manifest to LDAP. I followed the instructions at: https://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/LdapNodes and was able to get the puppet schema loaded into our LDAP. I can now query LDAP and modify/load data without any issues using the OpenLDAP tools. e.g. ldapsearch -h ldapdev1.domain.com -x

Hi, When I run puppet agent --test --environment 42A, I have the following warning : Warning: Local environment: "42A" doesn''t match server specified node environment "production", switching agent to "production". ... The puppet manifest for the environment "42A" isn''t applied. The puppet version is 3.3.1-1puppetlabs1 on agent and

Hi all, i'' m trying to configure puppet to use rails with postgresql. I'' m having troubles to make it work. Got no error when running puppetmasterd but nothing is being populated in the DB. Is anybody using puppet with postgres ? my config (in puppet.conf) [rails] dbadapter = postgresql dbname = mydb dbserver = localhost dbuser = user dbpassword = password

Hello All, I''m using the "Branch Testing" approach documented at https://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/BranchTesting and am seeing an issue with certificates. On all clients, I can run puppetd --masterport=8141 successfully but see the following error when I run against the default (8140) port: err: Could not retrieve configuration: Certificates were not trusted:

Hi! Everyone, puppet agent is not able to fetch any files, plugins or post catalog, reports to the master. both puppet agent and master are on version 3.0.l, passenger version 3.0.18 , nginx version: nginx/1.3.9 built by gcc 4.4.6 20120305 (Red Hat 4.4.6-4) (GCC) TLS SNI support enabled configure arguments: --prefix=/apps/nginx --conf-path=/apps/nginx/nginx.conf

Hello Everybody, We need to open some ports on the target machine, let''s say 694:udp and 3306:tcp I couldn''t find any documentation how can I do this with Puppet. What the best way of doing this? Thank you Dmytro -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to

I have set up puppet on Ubuntu/Debian servers with no problem. I am trying to get puppet working in a RHEL environment. I have the client installed and the certificate is signed so I know the two are talking but for some reason I can not get puppet to push the file on to the client. What am I missing? OS - RHEL5.7 Installation Source - epel-testing repo Puppet server version - 2.6.6 puppetd