[Puppet Users] Re: Quote, dollar and pipe

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 06:40:54PM -0600, Luke Kanies wrote: > > PS. May be my first message in this list, so : "mille mercis > > pour cet outil fantastique !" :-) > > > /me fails to dredge up rusty Français from college For me, it's rusty Français from all of before-college (I was raised in Ca

[Puppet Users] Re: A Survey about Puppet and Reductive Labs

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 04:54:53PM -0600, Luke Kanies wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'd appreciate your help improving our understanding of what the > community is most looking for from Puppet, how Reductive Labs > manages it, and how best to provide services around the project. > > Toward this end,

[Puppet Users] Re: A Survey about Puppet and Reductive Labs

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 04:54:53PM -0600, Luke Kanies wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'd appreciate your help improving our understanding of what the >> community is most looking for from Puppet, how Reductive Labs >> manages it, a

[Puppet Users] Mounts: virtual ressources or multiple classes ?

Hi, We're trying to implement the following structure: class my_pool { include linux, httpd... base modules include project_A include project_B } One pool can have many projects. One projects can be on many pools. A project is basically made of: - directories + NFS mounts - users and cr

[Puppet Users] Re: Quote, dollar and pipe

Luke Kanies wrote: > Could it be related to shell quoting? I wouldn't think so, because I > don't think the shell interprets the stdout, but they should behave > exactly the same. > > Could you file this as a bug? "Yes, I can" :) http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/1900 -- Alban Peig

[Puppet Users] Re: Quote, dollar and pipe

Robin Lee Powell wrote: >> "mille mercis pour cet outil fantastique !" :-) > It means "A thousand thank-yous for this fantastic utility." Exactly :) Many thanks for this great tool -- Alban Peignier - alban.peign...@free.fr http://people.tryphon.org/~alban --~--~-~--~~~

[Puppet Users] Automating removal of an application

Hello, I'm currently prototyping the use of Puppet to manage a bunch of home-made applications on a lot of servers. As our applications evolves frequently and multiples versions can be used at the same time, we use classes that include version in their name, like "myApplication_1-2-0" A t

[Puppet Users] Stoking a Religious War: Why Did You Go With Puppet Over Other Options?

Hi, Gang.. The Subject: line says it all. My organisation is looking at selecting a configuration management system. Any comments about why you chose Puppet over other options would be very helpful to us. Cheers, Tomcat --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this m

[Puppet Users] Re: Stoking a Religious War: Why Did You Go With Puppet Over Other Options?

2009/1/27 tomcat : > > Hi, Gang.. > > The Subject: line says it all. My organisation is looking at > selecting a configuration management > system. Any comments about why you chose Puppet over other options > would be very helpful to us. > My reason was just readability, I was comparing puppet w

[Puppet Users] facter PATH env

I want to set a facter for the current users(root) PATH. The problem is that virtual.rb is always setting the PATH to be ENV["PATH"]="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin" perhaps this file should save the PATH ENV and reset it once its done executing. Is there another w

[Puppet Users] Re: facter PATH env

2009/1/27 Dan Bode : > I want to set a facter for the current users(root) PATH. The problem is > that virtual.rb is always setting the PATH to be > > ENV["PATH"]="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin" > > perhaps this file should save the PATH ENV and reset it once its don

[Puppet Users] Re: facter PATH env

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Nasrat wrote: > 2009/1/27 Dan Bode : >> I want to set a facter for the current users(root) PATH. The problem is >> that virtual.rb is always setting the PATH to be >> >> ENV["PATH"]="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin"

[Puppet Users] Re: Stoking a Religious War: Why Did You Go With Puppet Over Other Options?

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Jonathan Share wrote: > > 2009/1/27 tomcat : >> >> Hi, Gang.. >> >> The Subject: line says it all. My organisation is looking at >> selecting a configuration management >> system. Any comments about why you chose Puppet over other options >> would be very helpful

[Puppet Users] augeas on solaris?

Has anyone used Augeas on solaris? I guess that the lenses may not work there. Has anyone compiled augeas on solaris? I tried, but I got warnings aout asprintf not being available and I could not find the installation package for it. thanks, Dan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~-

[Puppet Users] Re: Automating removal of an application

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:18 AM, nicolas wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm currently prototyping the use of Puppet to manage a bunch of > home-made applications on a lot of servers. > As our applications evolves frequently and multiples versions can > be used at the same time, we use classes that in

[Puppet Users] Re: Automating removal of an application

Evan Hisey wrote: > About the only time you need to do a wholesale application removal is > when you want to remove it from a system. If you have lots of > applications that are just ugly to install an dremove you may want to > take a look at Stow. If you use stow, you may want my stowedpackage

[Puppet Users] Re: augeas on solaris?

Hi > Has anyone used Augeas on solaris? I guess that the lenses may not work > there. > > Has anyone compiled augeas on solaris? I tried, but I got warnings aout > asprintf not being available and I could not find the installation package > for it. the best thing would be to ask this on: augeas

[Puppet Users] Re: Stoking a Religious War: Why Did You Go With Puppet Over Other Options?

On Jan 27, 9:47 am, Evan Hisey wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Jonathan Share wrote: > > > 2009/1/27 tomcat : > > >> Hi, Gang.. > > >>  The Subject: line says it all. My organisation is looking at > >> selecting a configuration management > >> system. Any comments about why you chose

[Puppet Users] Re: Stoking a Religious War: Why Did You Go With Puppet Over Other Options?

I swear by Puppet. It's the right tool for the task, designed from the ground up to do what it does best. That plus it is super-flexible, readable, extensible, and has a dope community. That's my un-professional, not-so-well written $.02. On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Larry Ludwig wrote:

[Puppet Users] Re: Stoking a Religious War: Why Did You Go With Puppet Over Other Options?

My reasoning is pretty simplistic. Because Luke is a businessman who built Puppet with what I believe is the goal of turning it into a sustainable business that solves problems for businesses. All of the other alternatives were built by academics as reasons to write papers that would get t

[Puppet Users] Re: Stoking a Religious War: Why Did You Go With Puppet Over Other Options?

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 05:39:05AM -0800, tomcat wrote: > > Hi, Gang.. > > The Subject: line says it all. My organisation is looking at > selecting a configuration management system. Any comments about > why you chose Puppet over other options would be very helpful to > us. Because after helpin

[Puppet Users] Re: package versioning with the yum provider?

Looks like upgrades are working with this approach but downgrades fail. Of course, this condition I'm seeing could exist due to the fact that I'm managing 2 packages where packageB depends on packageA. Perhaps it is possible to downgrade a single package... Any thoughts or insights out there? Be

[Puppet Users] Re: A Survey about Puppet and Reductive Labs

On Jan 27, 2009, at 3:07 AM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 04:54:53PM -0600, Luke Kanies wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'd appreciate your help improving our understanding of what the >> community is most looking for from Puppet, how Reductive Labs >> manages it, and how best

[Puppet Users] Re: Quote, dollar and pipe

On Jan 27, 2009, at 2:58 AM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 06:40:54PM -0600, Luke Kanies wrote: >>> PS. May be my first message in this list, so : "mille mercis >>> pour cet outil fantastique !" :-) >> >> >> /me fails to dredge up rusty Français from college > > For me, it's

[Puppet Users] Re: I'm starting to think that mongrel is not working

I upgraded ruby, installed mongrel again. Everything is now working successfully. Tom On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Bunkzillla wrote: > > I started from scratch scratch... > > I'm getting further. I'll post more tomorrow. > > > > On Jan 26, 8:57 pm, bunkytom wrote: > > No I mean when I

[Puppet Users] Automating removal of applications

Hello, I'm currently prototyping the use of Puppet to manage a bunch of home-made applications on a lot of servers. As our applications evolves frequently and multiples versions can be used at the same time, we use classes that include version in their name, like "myApplication_1-2-0" A typi

[Puppet Users] Re: puppet webserver

Thank you for your help. BTW, when i said, "...despite the resistance of other web servers..." i meant "existence of other web servers". "Very low resources" in the range of ~32mb RAM. The device to be managed by puppet will optionally run an web service that need .htaccess. I would like the se

[Puppet Users] Solaris zone documentation

I'm following the example provided in the type reference under 'zone', i.e.: zone{myzone: autoboot=>true, create_args=>"-b", ip=>"nge0:10:130.55.201", path=>"/zoneds/%s", realhostname=>"myzone.example.com",

[Puppet Users] pkgsrc provider for Package?

Hello I'm wondering if anyone has looked into adding pkgsrc package management as a provider for Package? We use Joyent accelerators (zones on OpenSolaris) for our many of our production services and about a year ago Joyent switched from Blastwave to pkgsrc for userland packages. pkgsrc catal

[Puppet Users] Re: pkgsrc provider for Package?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jesse Reynolds wrote: > Hello > > I'm wondering if anyone has looked into adding pkgsrc package > management as a provider for Package? Not as far as I am aware. > I had planned on using puppet to manage our joyent virtual boxes and > our local devel

[Puppet Users] Re: pkgsrc provider for Package?

2009/1/28 James Turnbull > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jesse Reynolds wrote: > > Hello > > > > I'm wondering if anyone has looked into adding pkgsrc package > > management as a provider for Package? > Not as far as I am aware. > > I had planned on using puppet to manage

[Puppet Users] Re: pkgsrc provider for Package?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jesse Reynolds wrote: > > > 2009/1/28 James Turnbull > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jesse Reynolds wrote: > > Hello > > > > I'm wondering if anyone has looked into