OK. So the docco is completely wrong: everything referenced in the template needs to be set as a variable prior to defining the zone. I'd assumed from context that the template was going to have the previously-declared object properties passed to it.
I can live with that, I was going to abstract the zone type anyway. Matt Andrew Shafer wrote: > Matt, > > There is no realhostname variable in scope when the template is getting > called. > > Variables in templates either need to be facts or set in the scope of Puppet > they are being called from. > > Does that make sense? > > Andrew > > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Matt McLeod <m...@boggle.org> wrote: > > > > > I'm following the example provided in the type reference > > under 'zone', i.e.: > > > > zone{myzone: > > autoboot=>true, > > create_args=>"-b", > > ip=>"nge0:10:130.55.201", > > path=>"/zoneds/%s", > > realhostname=>"myzone.example.com", > > sysidcfg=>template(sysidcfg) > > } > > > > with the following template: > > > > system_locale=en_AU > > timezone=Australia/NSW > > terminal=xterms > > security_policy=NONE > > root_password=elided > > timeserver=localhost > > name_service=DNS {domain_name=<%= domain %> > > name_server=10.132.2.150} > > network_interface=primary {hostname=<%= realhostname %> > > ip_address=<%= ip %> > > netmask=<%= netmask %> > > protocol_ipv6=no > > default_route=<%= defaultroute %>} > > nfs4_domain=dynamic > > > > The sysidcfg template is ripped straight from > > <http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/TypeReference#zone> > > but it doesn't work: > > > > err: Could not retrieve catalog: Failed to parse template sysidcfg: Could > > not find value for 'realhostname' at > > /staging/puppet/production/manifests/nodes.pp:90 on node > > elided.example.com > > > > This is with Puppet 0.24.7 on both client and server. > > > > I've not really needed the templating before so it's possible that > > there's a really obvious error in the template provided in the > > type reference and I'm just not seeing it. > > > > Matt > > > > -- > > * Matt McLeod | mail: m...@boggle.org | blog: http://abortrephrase.com/ * > > --- People can do the work, so machines have time to think --- > > > > > > > > > > -- * Matt McLeod | mail: m...@boggle.org | blog: http://abortrephrase.com/ * --- People can do the work, so machines have time to think --- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---