Have you tried,
---
family: "prod"
cluster: "prod"
compresslogs: "true"
?
On Monday, 23 July 2012 05:15:02 UTC+2, Aaron Nichols wrote:
>
> All,
> I have found very few references to this error so I'm guessing I must
> be doing something wrong. I have just started using hiera and am trying to
> use it in the simplest way possible, I have a class that looks like this:
>
> class app_users2($compresslogs = hiera('compresslogs')) {
>
>
> #Setup Cronjob for compressing app logs
>
> if $compresslogs == "true" {
>
> file { "/etc/cron.daily/copyLogs.cron":
>
> mode => "750",
>
> ensure => present,
>
> alias => "compresslogscron",
>
> source => "puppet:///modules/app_users2/copyLogs.sh"
>
> }
>
> }
>
> }
>
> For the node I'm running this on, hiera returns 'true' for that value when
> I test it out:
>
> $ hiera -c hiera.yaml compresslogs loc="sd" type="app"
> true
>
> I am using the yaml hiera backend and the yaml file this is configured in
> looks like this:
>
> ---
> family : prod
> cluster : prod
> compresslogs : true
>
> However, when I try to execute the manifests either on the host or test
> them using cucumber-puppet I get the following error:
>
> err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER:
> can't convert Symbol into String at
> /etc/puppet/modules/app_users2/manifests/init.pp:2 on node xyz
>
> I have tried quoting, unquoting the data in the yaml file & in the
> conditional in the class. I've tried calling hiera as a parameter to the
> class, also just as part of the conditional ( if hiera('compresslogs') ==
> true ) etc. It appears that anytime I try to reference that value from
> puppet it throws this error.
>
> I have found a few references in IRC logs to others having this problem
> but they all stated "Oh, I figured it out" without explaining how - so I'm
> a bit stuck.
>
> I am running the following hiera versions on the puppetmaster:
>
> hiera-puppet-1.0.0-0.1rc1.el5
> hiera-1.0.0-0.1rc3.el5
>
> And the puppetmaster is running puppet v. 2.7.6.-2. I also tried updating
> the puppet version on my host running cucumber-puppet to 2.7.18 and it
> continues to throw this error.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron
>
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