[Puppet Users] Restarting services

2010-11-05 Thread byron appelt
Is it possible to use a Service resource, but not have puppet start or start the service? I want to declare service resources so that I can easily make sure that puppet will restart them when packages are upgraded, etc., but I do not want puppet to restart them if a sysadmin shuts the down for some

[Puppet Users] Stopping a service before a package upgrade

2010-11-16 Thread byron appelt
Is there a way to shutdown a running service before a package is upgraded? This seems like a pretty basic thing to do, but I can't figure it out. -- 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...@g

[Puppet Users] Re: Stopping a service before a package upgrade

2010-11-17 Thread byron appelt
The package I am trying to update is running under monit, which will start it back up if not shut down via monit, which the package itself cannot do. Is there a recommended way to handle this sort of situation? -Byron On Nov 16, 5:35 pm, Daniel Pittman wrote: > byron appelt writes: >

[Puppet Users] bootstrapping facts

2010-11-17 Thread byron appelt
I am using a fact inside of a template. The problem I am running into is that the bootstrap run of puppet fails with the following error: err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Failed to parse template base_gateway/ublip_gw.monitrc.erb: Could not find value for 'g

[Puppet Users] Re: bootstrapping facts

2010-11-18 Thread byron appelt
on subsequent runs. Here is the fact, in case it is relevant: Facter.add("gw_init_script_exists") do setcode do FileTest.exist?("/etc/init.d/ublipgw.sh") end end On Nov 17, 8:48 pm, Nigel Kersten wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:05 PM, byron appelt wrote: >

[Puppet Users] Re: bootstrapping facts

2010-11-18 Thread byron appelt
problem. -Byron On Nov 18, 10:59 am, Nigel Kersten wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 6:46 AM, byron appelt wrote: > > I am delivering the fact with pluginsync, but that will not have > > occurred yet on bootstrap because puppet has yet to run for the first > > time and del

[Puppet Users] Re: bootstrapping facts

2010-11-18 Thread byron appelt
well now. Thanks for all your help Nigel, I would not have figured it out alone. -Byron On Nov 18, 1:03 pm, Nigel Kersten wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:04 AM, byron appelt wrote: > > I'm sure I don't understand something here, but when I look at the > > value of the

[Puppet Users] how to specify source parameter for gem packages

2009-12-24 Thread byron appelt
I am trying to use the package class to manage a gem and I need to specify the source. I tried doing the following: package { "gateway_install_support": ensure => installed, provider => gem, source => "http://gems.ublip.com:8808";, require => Exec["ruby setup.rb"] } but this cau

[Puppet Users] Re: how to specify source parameter for gem packages

2009-12-30 Thread byron appelt
Answering my own question here. As it turns out, the source parameter does work as I was expecting it to, but only in puppet versions 0.24.5 and greater. I was trying with 0.24.4. On Dec 24, 1:00 pm, byron appelt wrote: > I am trying to use the package class to manage agemand I need to > s

[Puppet Users] syncing custom facts

2010-02-04 Thread byron appelt
I am trying to get a custom fact to sync and have tried just about everything. I am trying to follow this: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PluginsInModules I have put my custom fact in /etc/puppet-dev/manifests/classes/custom/ lib/facter puppet.conf on my puppetmaster looks like this

Re: [Puppet Users] syncing custom facts

2010-02-04 Thread Byron Appelt
there is no idea where to find them? > > Thanks, > derek > > On 2/4/10 10:06 AM, byron appelt wrote: >> >> I am trying to get a custom fact to sync and have tried just about >> everything. I am trying to follow this: >> >> http://reductivelabs.com/trac/

[Puppet Users] puppet.conf problem after upgrading

2010-03-05 Thread byron appelt
I have been running puppet v0.24.5 installed via a debian package on Ubuntu. I am trying to upgrade to 0.25.4 installed via rubygem. Now when I try to run it I get the following error: (Puppet::Error)puppet.conf:[main]ings.rb:1028:in `parse_file': Could not match line [main] from /usr/lib/

[Puppet Users] Problem syncing custom fact

2010-04-05 Thread byron appelt
I am trying to get a custom fact to sync. The fact is in a module. It will sync if I run puppet with "--pluginsync" but not otherwise. I have "pluginsync=true" in my puppet.conf. Shouldn't the command line option and puppet.conf option have the same results? -- You received this message because y

[Puppet Users] Re: Problem syncing custom fact

2010-04-06 Thread byron appelt
and sync works fine. > > Can you post your full configuration? Both client and server? Can you > confirm your other settings are working when you adjust them in > puppet.conf? > > On Apr 5, 10:43 pm, byron appelt wrote: > > > I am trying to get a custom fact to sync. The fact

[Puppet Users] Re: Problem syncing custom fact

2010-04-06 Thread byron appelt
I found the problem. My puppet.conf somehow got checked into SVN with CR/LF line endings. Apparently this causes puppet to fail to read it, quite silently even with --debug unfortunately. On Apr 6, 11:59 am, byron appelt wrote: > Thanks, testing other settings was an excellent suggestion.

[Puppet Users] Re: Problem syncing custom fact

2010-04-07 Thread byron appelt
is already an open ticket here: > > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3119 > > ken. > > On Apr 6, 9:52 pm, byron appelt wrote: > > > I found the problem. My puppet.conf somehow got checked into SVN with > > CR/LF line endings. Apparently this causes puppet to fail to re

[Puppet Users] using puppetforge modules

2010-06-04 Thread byron appelt
I have just made my first attempt at using a module from puppetforge, so this is probably a newbie question. I used the puppet module tool to grab the camptocamp-apt module, it created a directory called "camptocamp-apt" with the structure expected for a module. However, the only way I could get

[Puppet Users] aliasing a package not working

2012-02-22 Thread byron appelt
I have the following code: class numerex_ruby::mysql_gem { include numerex_common_packages Package['libmysqlclient-dev'] -> Package['mysql_gem'] package { 'mysql': ensure => '2.8.1', provider => gem, alias => 'mysql_gem', } } Which results in an erro

[Puppet Users] cross server dependancies

2012-06-15 Thread Byron Appelt
I have an application package that needs to be installed on certain application servers but before it can be installed, database access has to be setup on a database server. I have figured out how to export a resource on the app server that gets collected and realized on the database server, b

[Puppet Users] recursive file management and setgid directory modes

2013-02-06 Thread Byron Appelt
I want to recursively set the mode of files in a directory to '0750' but set the permissions of the directory itself to '2750'. I cannot figure out a way to accomplish this. Is it possible? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To un

[Puppet Users] How to handle ib_logfile size parameter in MySQL

2012-08-17 Thread Byron Appelt
I am trying to use puppet to create and manage mysql instances running under Ubuntu, probably using the puppetlabs-mysql module. I am running into the issue that if you change the innodb_log_file_size parameter, mysql will complain and fail to start unless you delete the existing ib_logfiles be