Re: [Puppet Users] Provisioning VM in Xen via Puppet - Howto??

2010-06-14 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2010-06-11 21:20, Christopher Johnston wrote: Thomas I don't see your GIT repo, looks to be offline. I don't see any problems when I check now. A git clone of http://www.nsc.liu.se/~bellman/nsc-puppet-utils.git works fine for me. (Note, however, that you can't point a normal web browser

Re: [Puppet Users] FYI: Mac Configuration Management at the Los Alamos National Laboratory white paper

2010-06-14 Thread Christopher Webber
I went to download this and it returned a 404. Is it still available somewhere? -- cwebber On Jun 4, 2010, at 4:59 PM, Marcus, Allan B wrote: Here's a white paper you may be interested in. The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) had a need for central configuration management of

Re: [Puppet Users] FYI: Mac Configuration Management at the Los Alamos National Laboratory white paper

2010-06-14 Thread Charles Johnson
You can find it here: http://is.gd/cOYhE Cheers-- Charles On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Christopher Webber kgbbelm...@gmail.comwrote: I went to download this and it returned a 404. Is it still available somewhere? -- cwebber On Jun 4, 2010, at 4:59 PM, Marcus, Allan B wrote:

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet with VMWare ESX

2010-06-14 Thread Jens Meydam
Hi dbs, Hi Matthew, Thanks a lot for your detailed answers! Jens On Jun 14, 3:39 pm, Matthew Marlowe m...@deploylinux.net wrote: Not at all, Puppet with vmware guest platforms is fantastic. +1 More to the point, puppet seems best at allowing rapid scale out of applications via

[Puppet Users] Overriding user attributes

2010-06-14 Thread Brian Gallew
I've got a generic user java that owns Java applications. Due to circumstances beyond my control, I cannot dictate a change here, so I need to make Puppet work with the infrastructure on hand. The big problem, though, is that java's home directory varies with the application that's being run.

Re: [Puppet Users] Unable to use custom type loaded from module

2010-06-14 Thread Ben Beuchler
There are a bunch of workarounds for this though. A lot of the time you can get away with just a shell provider and type for manifest validation, as the client will get the right one synced down for use in actual resource application. I thought I understood what you were suggesting, but

[Puppet Users] stack level too deep

2010-06-14 Thread Douglas Garstang
I'm getting this on my client: Jun 14 15:21:26 s_...@app09.fr.xxx.com puppetd[24751]: Could not retrieve catalog: stack level too deep on node app09.fr.twofish.com Jun 14 15:21:26 s_...@app09.fr.xxx.com puppetd[24751]: Not using cache on failed catalog Since running puppetd in debug gives no

[Puppet Users] Re: Overriding user attributes

2010-06-14 Thread donavan
On Jun 14, 1:14 pm, Brian Gallew g...@gallew.org wrote: class jboss {   include users   User[java]{home = /home/app1   realize(User[java])} where java is declared in class users {   @user{java: uid=500, gid=501} } Brian, I'm still in .24.8 land, so some of this is WAG. For your stated

Re: [Puppet Users] Unable to use custom type loaded from module

2010-06-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Ben Beuchler ins...@gmail.com wrote: There are a bunch of workarounds for this though. A lot of the time you can get away with just a shell provider and type for manifest validation, as the client will get the right one synced down for use in actual resource

[Puppet Users] Re: Nagios hostgroups

2010-06-14 Thread donavan
On Jun 12, 1:09 pm, Gabriel Filion lelu...@gmail.com wrote: I tested giving a list of strings to the hostgroups attribute to the nagios_host resource but it only considers the first element of the list. Something like this?: nagios_host { $fqdn: address = $ipaddress, hostgroups = [group1,

Re: [Puppet Users] stack level too deep

2010-06-14 Thread Peter Meier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In a word... What the hell? This was previously working and I'm at a loss as to why including ONE class in my external node manifest is yielding a stack too deep error. I doubt that this is related to your manifests. Can you run your server and

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Overriding user attributes

2010-06-14 Thread Brian Gallew
Thanks. I'll try that when I get in to the office tomorrow. On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 4:00 PM, donavan dona...@desinc.net wrote: On Jun 14, 1:14 pm, Brian Gallew g...@gallew.org wrote: class jboss { include users User[java]{home = /home/app1 realize(User[java])} where java is

Re: [Puppet Users] stack level too deep

2010-06-14 Thread James Turnbull
Peter Meier wrote: In a word... What the hell? This was previously working and I'm at a loss as to why including ONE class in my external node manifest is yielding a stack too deep error. I doubt that this is related to your manifests. Can you run your server and client with --verbose and