[Puppet Users] Puppet can't make puppet run.

I don't know that I can think of a solution to this, but: debug: Service[puppet](provider=debian): Executing 'ps -ef' debug: Service[puppet](provider=debian): PID is 30078 PID 30078, AFAICT, was the puppetd -tv I was actually running at the time. :) oh-www1% puppetd --version 0.24.8 -Robin

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet can't make puppet run.

Robin Lee Powell wrote: I don't know that I can think of a solution to this, but: debug: Service[puppet](provider=debian): Executing 'ps -ef' debug: Service[puppet](provider=debian): PID is 30078 PID 30078, AFAICT, was the puppetd -tv I was actually running at the time. :) Get an

[Puppet Users] Puppet server recommendations

I have deployed puppet on our test cluster -- 20 identically configured x86_64 and ppc64 compute nodes and their gateways. I now want to move to our production cluster with (say) 800 compute nodes and their gateways. My question is about the puppet server box itself. I am using apache+ssl with

[Puppet Users] Re: managing ip addresses

Chris Blumentritt wrote: I am trying to manage ip address aliases and I cannot come up with a good strategy. I have three webhead servers that are balanced via a hardware load balancer. I have a define that will be setting up website config on each server and one piece I need to sort

[Puppet Users] Conditional host file entries, Puppet's non-sequential tree

Hello folks, Running 0.24.6, and I need a clue-by-4 with something I'm trying to do. I have a single manifest file, used by 3 servers. Depending on the server name, I need to allocate a different set of variables that get used to populate a host {} block. Since Puppet doesn't work in a

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet server recommendations

On 8/19/09 10:06 AM, cnjohnson gm.johns...@gmail.com wrote: Any thoughts about what sort of puppet-box I need to manage a cluster of 800 boxes? How often will puppet wake up on each client? If only once an hour normally, a decent normal server (say 8GB RAM, dual dual-core CPU's) should be

[Puppet Users] List problems?

0.o -Robin - Forwarded message from mailer-dae...@mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net - Date: 19 Aug 2009 16:04:38 - From: mailer-dae...@mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net To: rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net. I'm afraid

[Puppet Users] Expanding templates into files for testing purposes

According to http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetTemplating I can do this for template syntax checking: erb -x -T '-' mytemplate.erb | ruby -c Is there a way to feed ruby values for the variables inside the template and see what the file will look like on a target machine? Pete

[Puppet Users] migating from 0.24.8 to 0.25.0rc1

Hi all! I have migrated some machines from puppet 0.24.8 to 0.25.0rc1, mainly because of bug in 0.24.8 when using ssh_authorized_keys and I am getting the following messages when starting the client: Setting the :cacrl to 'false' is deprecated; Puppet will just ignore the crl if yours is missing

[Puppet Users] Howto understand the error message Could not find class parent XXXXXXXX? howto link it?

Hi, err: Could not retrieve catalog: Could not find class parent apache::package at /home/puppet/modules/apache/manifests/debian.pp:11 on node ns0.mysite.org vi /home/puppet/modules/apache/manifests/debian.pp ### debian class apache::debian inherits apache::package { $config_dir =