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I see that there are an assorted bunch of "provider" types for resource type user. Are there not any "local file" providers for it? I have need of ensuring that certain local user accounts get created on all machines, reguardless of what the system "/bin/password" and "useradd" type mechanisms are set to. It would be really nice to find a pre-written

I´m trying to utilize the new stdlib module, but got stuck after installation on my puppet server. I´ve tried to use the included test file file_line.pp on the server, but it´s only creating the file - but not managing the content. the same problem on my clients (the new provider file_line has been synced), it´s just not working: file_line { ''puppet master host

Hi , I"m trying to add a entry in /etc/syslog.conf using puppet augeas like this " *.warning;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none @syslog_host" , seems the way to do this with augeas is : augeas { "syslog_conf": lens => "syslog.lns", incl => "/etc/syslog.conf",

Hi, can you anyone suggest me how can i update .k5login to append new entry or remove existing line when i tried using k5login { ''/root/.k5login'': ensure => present, path => ''/root/.k5login'', principals => ''dhaval@MYREALM.COM'', } it completelty removes all lines form k5login and put

I''m trying to load custom facts via /etc/facter/facts.d/* according to instructions on http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_facts.html#structured-data-facts I must have missed a setting somewhere because I get nothing. The first clue may be that /etc/facter didn''t exist. I had to create it manually. Is there a setting or search path I need to create? Details: puppet

Hi, 1) I added this test function tom my /etc/puppet/modules/write_line_to_file/lib/puppet/parser/functions/write_line_to_file.rb : *module Puppet::Parser::Functions newfunction(:write_line_to_file) do |args| filename = args[0] str = args[1] File.open(args[0], ''a'') {|fd| fd.puts str } end end* 2) I invoked it in the

I''m trying to create a ssh class where the /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts and /etc/ssh/shosts.equiv stays updated. The issue i''m finding is that if I include a "tag == anything" in the Collector filter, it collects all resources EXCEPT it''s own. In this case, the known_hosts and .equiv files will have all the other hostnames, but not it''s own hostname.

Hi Heidi, Now We tried to install the puppet and puppet-server packages from puppetlabs, but we faced below discrepancy. Please look into this and let us know your suggestions because issue was not found in Puppet community as well. There was 1 issue related to this but it dint help us (http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/16634 ) We went through

Hi, Sorry for the broad distribution, I''m not sure who best can help me. I''m trying to add a new interface stanza to /etc/network/interfaces. With augtool, I can accomplish this with the following: set /files/etc/network/interfaces/iface[last()+1] bond1 set /files/etc/network/interfaces/iface[last()]/family inet set /files/etc/network/interfaces/iface[last()]/method dhcp set

what i thought would be a simple edit using augeas is turning out to not be so straight forward, can anyone please help ? the plan is to edit sendmail.cf and change the default DS to DShostname.domain class mail { $key = DS service { ''sendmail'':; } augeas { "sendmail.cf/$key": context =>

Hello, I am trying to use augeas via puppet, augeas { "mailops": context => "/files/etc/sudoers", changes => [ "set spec[user = ''%mail-ops'']/user %mail-ops", "set spec[user = ''%mail-ops'']/host_group/host ALL", "set spec[user = ''%mail-ops'']/host_group/command[1] \"/bin/su

(apologies in advance for the line wrap) I have the following tidbit of augeas code, which inserts a rule into /etc/sysconfig/iptables as the first rule of a specifically named chain; # augtool> insert append before "/files/etc/sysconfig/iptables/table/append[. = ''Mayo-Firewall-INPUT''][1]" # augtool> match /files/etc/sysconfig/iptables/table/append[. =

Team, I am trying to setup new Puppet master server on Centos 5.4. I am getting the below error which running yum install puppet-server puppet-2.7.17-1.el5.noarch from puppetlabs has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: ruby-shadow is needed by package puppet-2.7.17-1.el5.noarch (puppetlabs) puppet-2.7.17-1.el5.noarch from puppetlabs has depsolving problems --> Missing

Hello, I am working on building an internal repo for RHEL6 x86_64 and I don''t see any augeas rpms in the puppetlabs repo? There are for i686 but not x86_64? Are the rpms "noarch" that can be used for both? -chrisl -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to

Hi again, I am trying to add the following to my /etc/passwd and /etc/group files +::::: and +::: this is for ldap search on the servers. I am note quite sure on howto do this, I tryed with the following code augeas{ "groups ldap": context => "/files/etc/group", changes => [

I would like to use puppet classes to inject and/or replace xml elements into an existing xml configuration file. This seems to me to be a common problem already solved. Can anyone suggest the easiest way to do this? An example use case would look like something like this. Given xml file: <host> <server name="one"/> <server name="two"/>

It turns out augeas on RHEL6 is 0.7.2, which does not have ''setm'' command available. ''setm'' is available in augeas release 0.8, which is available in EPEL, but not available for RHEL6 (the reason is the package is already in RHEL6, thus no package would be released in EPEL for this. All I want to do is to put console=ttyS0 on all kernel lines in /etc/grub.conf.

http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7600 I call this the "agent orange" option :) This works, purging all unmanaged hosts entries: resources { ''host'': purge => true, noop => true, } We should have a similar property for all (most?) types. Please comment on the ticket or reply here, whichever you prefer. Thanks! r P.S. This is in

Hi, I am having problems installing Puppet Server. My gem list follows and then the attempt to install puppet-server. The specific errors are: Error: Package: puppet-3.2.1-1.el6.noarch (puppetlabs) Requires: ruby-augeas Error: Package: hiera-1.2.1-1.el6.noarch (puppetlabs) Requires: rubygem-json Error: Package: puppet-3.2.1-1.el6.noarch (puppetlabs)

I have a tricky problem. I''m going to use Augeas, like here http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Puppet_Augeas#/etc/sysctl.conf to maintain sysctl.conf. However, since iptables is already disabled, when I add more lines to sysctl.conf with augeas and run sysctl -p, the following lines (which are already there) cause a failure. # Disable netfilter on bridges.