On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Brian LaShomb <blash...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all... finally getting around to trying Puppet, I'm excited to get
> started, but I'm stuck on install. My server a 3-month old Xserve with 6GB
> of RAM. Didn't configure any other services for it yet, and I tried
> installing puppet and facter 3 different ways (because I thought the missing
> rrd directory could've been an install glitch).
> First I tried downloading from puppetlabs.com and using 'ruby install'.
> Second, I tried the packages for OS X (linked to from Puppet's site). Third
> I tried 'gem install'.
> After install, I create a file called site.pp at /etc/puppet/manifests with
> the following. I change this file to puppet user and group permissions.
>
> file { "/etc/passwd": owner => "root",
>
> group => "bin", mode => 644,
>
> }
>
> Then I start puppet using: sudo puppetmasterd --verbose --debug
> --no-daemonize
> The end of the output shows:
> err: /File[/var/lib/puppet/rrd]/ensure: change from absent to directory
> failed: Could not set 'directory on ensure: Permission denied -
> /var/lib/puppet/rrd
> debug: Finishing transaction 2165906120
> Could not run: Got 1 failure(s) while initializing: change from absent to
> directory failed: Could not set 'directory on ensure: Permission denied -
> /var/lib/puppet/rrd
>
> I have no rrd directory... here is what I have.
> server:~ admin$ ls -al /var/lib/puppet/
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 11 root wheel 374 Dec 16 14:31 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Dec 16 14:31 ..
> drwxr-x--- 2 puppet puppet 68 Dec 16 14:31 bucket
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 68 Dec 16 14:31 facts
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 68 Dec 16 14:31 lib
> drwxr-x--- 3 puppet puppet 102 Dec 16 14:31 log
> drwxr-x--- 2 puppet puppet 68 Dec 16 14:31 reports
> drwxrwxrwt 3 root wheel 102 Dec 16 14:31 run
> drwxr-x--- 2 puppet puppet 68 Dec 16 14:31 server_data
> drwxr-xr-t 2 root wheel 68 Dec 16 14:31 state
> drwxr-x--- 2 puppet puppet 68 Dec 16 14:31 yaml
>
> From here I've tried creating the rrd directory and applying user and group
> permissions to puppet, but it just hangs with the following output when
> rerunning the aforementioned puppetmasterd command.
> notice: Starting Puppet master version 2.6.4
> debug: No file server configuration file; autocreating modules mount with
> default permissions
> debug: No file server configuration file; autocreating plugins mount with
> default permissions
> debug: Finishing transaction 2165520200
>
> What am I missing? Thanks for the help... I can't wait to start using
> Puppet!
I'm not sure if conf/osx/createpackage.sh is still up to date. You can
try that or if you use macports, it's fast way to get started by
simply running port install puppet.
https://sites.google.com/a/explanatorygap.net/puppet/
http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/sysutils/puppet/Portfile
Thanks,
Nan
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