Hi, On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:50 AM, mohit chawla <mohit.chawla.bin...@gmail.com > wrote:
> I am sure I didn't make this up, but I was under the impression that either > it will autoload the default site.pp (under /etc/puppet/manifests) or the > one mentioned with the --manifest option. So, essentially I thought just the > modulepath option (with or without the explicit --manifest option) would be > sufficient in either case. > you can achieve this functionality by running #>puppet /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp only the puppet server (puppetmasterd) uses manifest/manifestdir to automatically find site.pp > I was mainly trying out alternative deployment approaches apart from the > client/server arch that I have been using. Mainly inspired by this article: > http://bitfieldconsulting.com/scaling-puppet-with-distributed-version-control > I had a look at that article, it is slightly misleading. I think the examples are trying to highlight that you can specify modulepath with the puppet executalbe, but the statements: puppet --modulepath=/etc/puppet/modules are not valid, they will just hang unless the puppet manifest is also passed as an argument. > > Didn't think asking this would be so offensive. > I am definitely not offend, and I don't mean to offend, just trying to help. > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Dan Bode <d...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > >> the puppet executable expects one of the following: >> path to manifest file >> puppet code passed to stdin >> with the -e options, it accepts puppet code to execute. >> >> when you call puppet code without one of these options, it is patiently >> waiting for code from STDIN. >> >> What behavior are you expecting? Maybe you should look into the >> puppetmasterd/puppetd executables. >> >> -Dan >> >> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:17 PM, mohit chawla < >> mohit.chawla.bin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Puppet version is 0.25.5 on Debian Squeeze. >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:43 AM, alcy <mohit.chawla.bin...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> If I do >>>> >>>> 1) puppet --modulepath=/home/abc/puppet/modules >>>> >>>> OR >>>> >>>> 2) puppet --modulepath=/home/abc/puppet/modules --manifest=/home/abc/ >>>> puppet/site.pp >>>> >>>> (...where site.pp has import "nodes.pp", and nodes.pp has a default >>>> node definition that includes basic modules defined under /home/abc/ >>>> puppet/modules) >>>> >>>> OR >>>> >>>> 3) 2) with confdir set as /home/abc/puppet with a puppet.conf just >>>> pointing to the var, ssl and other directories. >>>> >>>> , then I do not get any output (or anything in the logfile with the >>>> logdest set) whatsoever even with trace, logdest, debug and verbose >>>> options set. >>>> >>>> >>>> If however I explicitly do >>>> >>>> 4) puppet -e node default { include xyz include pqr} --modulepath=/ >>>> home/abc/puppet/modules >>>> >>>> ,then the modules are applied fine. >>>> >>>> Any pointers regarding this behavior of the standalone executable ? >>>> Suggestions/tips for better understanding its working ? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Puppet Users" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Puppet Users" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Puppet Users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@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.
