Thanks for that but it turns out that the team that did the setups didn't follow the standard operating procedure that I gave them. Somebody tried to read into what I wrote left a pair of lines in the configuration file that should have been there.
On Tue, Feb 9, 2016, 08:39 Lowe Schmidt <m...@loweschmidt.se> wrote: > etckeeper is a tool for managing /etc with a RCS and is not part of the > Puppet distribution itself. > It tries to do a commit every time something changed on the filesystem and > it is failing to do that, I suggest talking to the team that set up the > machines about how they use etckeeper first > > Regards, > > -- > Lowe Schmidt | +46 723 867 157 > > On 5 February 2016 at 23:13, Christopher Wood <christopher_w...@pobox.com> > wrote: > >> It may be useful to provide them with a puppet manifest which configures >> most of the puppet agent. If all they need to do is "yum install puppet; >> puppet apply file.pp" that might simplify things from both ends. >> >> On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 10:00:14PM +0000, Peter Berghold wrote: >> > Just the questions you asked prompted me to ask my operators more >> > questions. Seems instructions were not followed when they >> configured >> > Puppet so a quick correction solved the problem. Thanks. >> > On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 3:54 PM Peter Berghold <[1] >> salty.cowd...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > >> > Puppet version: 3.7.2 >> > OS Family: RHEL >> > lsbdistdescription => Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 >> > (Santiago) >> > On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 2:10 PM Matthaus Owens >> > <[2]matth...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: >> > >> > Peter, >> > To allow us to be more helpful, it would be great if you could >> include >> > which version of puppet you are installing and from where. From >> the >> > problem you describe, I imagine you are installing from debian or >> > ubuntu. >> > They include 2 files in their >> package /etc/puppet/etckeeper-commit-pre >> > and /etc/puppet/etckeeper-commit-post that are referenced in the >> > puppet.conf that ships with the package. It looks like etckeeper >> is >> > designed to allow someone to version control the etc directory >> > ([3]https://joeyh.name/code/etckeeper/). The error you're seeing >> > indicates that the file doesn't exist, so there are 2 options to >> > resolve it. >> > 1. Edit /etc/puppet/puppet.conf to remove or disable the >> > prerun_command and postrun_command settings. >> > 2. Reinstall the package to try to get the etckeeper-commit-post >> file >> > back (this assumes you are using the debian/ubuntu puppet >> packages) >> > Another option would be to use the Puppet Labs' apt repositories >> > instead of debian/ubuntu. We don't ship with those settings on by >> > default in our packages. >> > HTH >> > On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 8:18 AM, Peter Berghold >> > <[4]salty.cowd...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > First a disclaimer: I am trying to provide support for our >> > production team setting up a system as a Puppet agent node and >> most >> > of the work I'm doing is being handled with the operations team >> > acting as my voice operated keyboards. >> > I handed my operations team instructions on how to install a >> Puppet >> > client on some of our production boxes. One such box when >> running >> > the agent for the first time issues the following error and >> the run >> > fails: >> > "Error: Could not run command from postrun_command: Execution >> of >> > '/etc/puppet/etckeeper-commit-post' retur ned 1: Error: Could >> not >> > execute posix command: No such file or directory - >> > /etc/puppet/etckeeper-commit-post" >> > Never saw this error before and I'm quite baffled by it. >> Where is >> > this coming from and what is Puppet trying to tell me? >> > Thanks in advance. >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the >> Google >> > Groups "Puppet Users" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from >> it, >> > send an email to [5]puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> > [6] >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAArvnv2zJrNqO_W3wgeAjWiFmJ%3D%2BJzyohg_is4SQ1_SU153%2BoA%40mail.gmail.com >> . >> > For more options, visit [7]https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > >> > -- >> > Matthaus Owens >> > Puppet Labs >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the >> Google >> > Groups "Puppet Users" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from >> it, send >> > an email to [8]puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> > [9] >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CACD%3DwAekA%2BxkVk-doG3LAsaR%3D1moR2VMd-vk2oLYvU0kEtcJLg%40mail.gmail.com >> . >> > For more options, visit [10]https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > "Puppet Users" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >> send an >> > email to [11]puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> > [12] >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAArvnv2ajxgCAC%3DxR9ach0NDLBZhhz3vMqNFP6pfL-7yXJkZwg%40mail.gmail.com >> . >> > For more options, visit [13]https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > >> > References >> > >> > Visible links >> > 1. mailto:salty.cowd...@gmail.com >> > 2. mailto:matth...@puppetlabs.com >> > 3. https://joeyh.name/code/etckeeper/ >> > 4. mailto:salty.cowd...@gmail.com >> > 5. mailto:puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> > 6. >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAArvnv2zJrNqO_W3wgeAjWiFmJ%3D%2BJzyohg_is4SQ1_SU153%2BoA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer >> > 7. https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> > 8. mailto:puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> > 9. >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CACD%3DwAekA%2BxkVk-doG3LAsaR%3D1moR2VMd-vk2oLYvU0kEtcJLg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer >> > 10. https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> > 11. mailto:puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> > 12. >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAArvnv2ajxgCAC%3DxR9ach0NDLBZhhz3vMqNFP6pfL-7yXJkZwg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer >> > 13. https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Puppet Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/20160205221340.GA25248%40iniquitous.heresiarch.ca >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAC-wWcQeMjQovbxyxCj_QN4BTU0mpdxWuh_jdBGorZxUrMJ0ww%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAC-wWcQeMjQovbxyxCj_QN4BTU0mpdxWuh_jdBGorZxUrMJ0ww%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. 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