[Puppet Users] Re: stuck installing puppet in RHEL 5

Would love to know what the fix was, having the same issue when installing on CentOS 6.3 On Thursday, January 31, 2013 2:15:07 PM UTC-7, Ellison Marks wrote: > > Might post what the fix was, in case others find this thread. > > On Thursday, January 31, 2013 11:24:39 AM UTC-8, brutuz wrote: >> >>

Re: [Puppet Users] Apache module

On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 7:16:32 AM UTC+11, ashely wrote: I suspect you are correct about in house apache modules. I also found > the various apache modules on forge or elsewhere did not accomodate our > site's needs. It is a tough problem. > > We ended up building 2 apache modules.

Re: [Puppet Users] Change the location of puppet.conf

I'm not sure your syntax is valid with that double <<. Try $0 = "master" ARGV << "--debug" ARGV << "--rack" ARGV << "--confdir=/opt/puppet" ARGV << "--vardir=/opt/puppet/var" ARGV << "--config=/opt/puppet/puppet.conf" require 'puppet/util/command_line' run Puppet:

Re: [Puppet Users] Purge puppet's reports

How about logrotate ? On Jan 30, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Andrew Sinclair wrote: > Great solution. Simple, effective. Thanks. > > On Thursday, 21 July 2011 14:50:32 UTC+1, vagn wrote: > On 07/21/2011 08:52 AM, vagn scott wrote: > > Thinking about this some more, if you need the reports for dashboard

Re: [Puppet Users] Change the location of puppet.conf

Oh and one last observation since I'm in the heat of it. Doesn't seem like my confdir setting is taking either. btw my $HOME is /opt.. don't ask (just testing) :-) $ puppet agent --test --debug Debug: Failed to load library 'selinux' for feature 'selinux' Debug: Using settings: adding file resou

Re: [Puppet Users] Change the location of puppet.conf

Just in case I'm missing something obvious, here's my entire config.ru file: # a config.ru, for use with every rack-compatible webserver. > # SSL needs to be handled outside this, though. > # if puppet is not in your RUBYLIB: > # $LOAD_PATH.unshift('/opt/puppet/lib') > $0 = "master" > # if you wan

Re: [Puppet Users] Change the location of puppet.conf

Yup, definitely apache: netstat: tcp0 0 :::8140 :::* LISTEN 21710/httpd rack is spawned: ps: user 21877 1 0 18:26 ?00:00:00 Rack: /opt/puppet/rack

Re: [Puppet Users] Change the location of puppet.conf

Very strange, I've used the --config with the custom conf file for years though I'm still on 2.7. Are you sure you're running your Puppet master through Apache/Passenger and not running the puppetmaster script? For the hell of it check to make sure Apache has the port and that Rack processes

Re: [Puppet Users] Change the location of puppet.conf

Hey Ramin, That sounded like an awesome idea! So I tried it out, updated config.ru and bounced httpd ARGV << "--confdir" << "/opt/puppet/" ARGV << "--vardir" << "/opt/puppet/var" ARGV << "--config" << "/opt/puppet/puppet.conf" Doesn't fly.. it stil creates the .puppet directory and fails. I a

[Puppet Users] Re: How to collect hostnames or host ips

Thanks everyone for your feedback. I have been testing with puppetdb and stored configs and its working great. Below is an example using two different ways. The first one is using the collection syntax suggested by Jared and the other is using the puppet-puppetdb module as suggested by Luke.

Re: [Puppet Users] Change the location of puppet.conf

On 1/31/2013 5:46 PM, Jason Knudsen wrote: Yo, Thanks for the suggestion Chad. So actually a little bit more background from me would be useful: I'm running this in user land, outside of their $HOME directory -- as a non-root user. Also, I'm running this through Apache Passenger (so I've tried

Re: [Puppet Users] Change the location of puppet.conf

Also -- running puppet agent with --config=/dir works perfectly fine. It's just one additional thing I'll have to hardcode in scripts and whatnot, and was hoping to avoid that. On Thursday, January 31, 2013 5:46:42 PM UTC-8, Jason Knudsen wrote: > > Yo, > > Thanks for the suggestion Chad. So act

Re: [Puppet Users] Change the location of puppet.conf

Yo, Thanks for the suggestion Chad. So actually a little bit more background from me would be useful: I'm running this in user land, outside of their $HOME directory -- as a non-root user. Also, I'm running this through Apache Passenger (so I've tried putting the variables correctly in the config

[Puppet Users] Re: Installing fog -0.7.2 for CloudProvisioner

I had the same problems some days ago and here are my notes to install it: yum install -y gcc ruby-devel libxml2 libxml2-devel libxslt libxslt-devel make When using fog 0.7.2 I got a lot of warnings while using puppet node_aws.. so I updated to latest fog and everything is working correctly now

Re: [Puppet Users] Change the location of puppet.conf

--config Depending on your OS, you can set this as the default option for the service in /etc/sysconfig/puppet or /etc/default/puppet. - Chad On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Jason Knudsen wrote: > Hey guys, > > Does anyone know how to change the location of puppet.conf? In my situation, > I d

Re: [Puppet Users] Any way to "force" set the type provider? Problem with firewall module and iptables

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Erno Aapa wrote: > Hi, > I have tricky problem and I hope that someone could help me. > I'm using puppetlabs-firewall module. My box doesn't have iptables > pre-installed. And because there is no /sbin/iptables puppet don't find > provider for firewall -type. I g

[Puppet Users] Re: Need a solution for "puppet node clean" (puppet v3.0.2)

I was searching about these some days ago and I found somewhere that the 'puppet node deactivate ' would do the tricky. I haven't tried it yet, so I can't confirm it works. On Thursday, January 31, 2013 12:55:54 PM UTC-8, Chris Price wrote: > > David, > > Are you using PuppetDB? There was a thr

[Puppet Users] Change the location of puppet.conf

Hey guys, Does anyone know how to change the location of puppet.conf? In my situation, I don't want to store it under /etc/puppet/puppet.conf or ~/.puppet/puppet.conf -- I'd like to store it under /opt/puppet/puppet.conf in this example. Is there a method without having to symlink, perhaps with

[Puppet Users] Re: Multiple hierarchies with Hiera

> > > > If you call hiera like $somevalue = hiera(key, default, source) (not sure > that is the best name for the 3rd argument) it will, for that call only, > override the hierarchy and inject 'source' at the top of the hierarchy. > This is what I was after. Thank you. -- You received this

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Any way to "force" set the type provider? Problem with firewall module and iptables

Install iptables before running puppet? There is some amount of setup you will have to do before puppet will run the first time. For instance, you have to install puppet and the iptables module! - Chad On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Ellison Marks wrote: > Is it fine after the first run? > >

[Puppet Users] Re: Resource ordering problem...

On Thursday, January 31, 2013 11:52:41 AM UTC-6, Gavin Williams wrote: > > Afternoon all > > I'm sure this is probably a nice n easy one, but I can't work it out for > the life of me... > > Anyhow, I've got the following code: > # Load db yaml data > $db_details = loadyaml('/etc/puppet/data

Re: [Puppet Users] Resource ordering problem...

Nothing about your notify resources is actually telling you what's going on with the variables. Just because the details notify happens last, doesn't mean that the variable was evaluated at that time. Variable assignment is parse-order dependent. I'd look to make sure your custom function actual

[Puppet Users] Re: Need a solution for "puppet node clean" (puppet v3.0.2)

That does look like what i'm looking for, thanks! Dave On Thursday, January 31, 2013 1:24:06 PM UTC-8, llowder wrote: > > > > On Thursday, January 31, 2013 3:10:12 PM UTC-6, David Kerr wrote: >> >> I am using PuppetDB and I'd love the links, I did some searching and >> wasn't able to find the

[Puppet Users] Re: Need a solution for "puppet node clean" (puppet v3.0.2)

On Thursday, January 31, 2013 3:10:12 PM UTC-6, David Kerr wrote: > > I am using PuppetDB and I'd love the links, I did some searching and > wasn't able to find the conversation. > > Thanks for the reply! > This may help. https://ask.puppetlabs.com/question/88/how-can-i-purge-exported-resource

[Puppet Users] Re: stuck installing puppet in RHEL 5

Might post what the fix was, in case others find this thread. On Thursday, January 31, 2013 11:24:39 AM UTC-8, brutuz wrote: > > Please disregard this issue I found a fix.. > > > > On Tuesday, January 29, 2013 3:06:32 PM UTC-5, brutuz wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> Im trying to install but with no l

[Puppet Users] Re: Need a solution for "puppet node clean" (puppet v3.0.2)

I am using PuppetDB and I'd love the links, I did some searching and wasn't able to find the conversation. Thanks for the reply! On Thursday, January 31, 2013 12:55:54 PM UTC-8, Chris Price wrote: > > David, > > Are you using PuppetDB? There was a thread on this list recently about > the same

[Puppet Users] Re: Need a solution for "puppet node clean" (puppet v3.0.2)

David, Are you using PuppetDB? There was a thread on this list recently about the same topic, and there was some example SQL that could be used in the short-term. We have a few open tickets around coming up with better solutions for this and we expect to be addressing them Very Soon Now. If

Re: [Puppet Users] Resource ordering problem...

Matt Yeh, the function is defined within this module... I'll give moving the loadyaml into parse_databases a go when back in the office in the morning... Any other ideas welcome though... Cheers Gavin On Jan 31, 2013 8:43 PM, "Matthew Burgess" wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Gavin W

Re: [Puppet Users] Resource ordering problem...

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Gavin Williams wrote: > Afternoon all > > I'm sure this is probably a nice n easy one, but I can't work it out for the > life of me... > > Anyhow, I've got the following code: > # Load db yaml data > $db_details = loadyaml('/etc/puppet/data/databases.yaml') > >

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Calling a "subclass" correctly in a node def?

So I finished the module based on the style guide and have a working parameterized mysql-client/server module. Thanks everyone for the input that helped me get there. # = Class: mysql # # This class installs/configures/manages mysql # # == Parameters: # # mysql_role => mysqlServer #

[Puppet Users] tagmail via sendmail custom message

Hey all So I got successfully setup tagmail via sendmail and I can get it send me the reports I want. My question is if I wanted to add a custom message in the email it sends with the report is that possible? If so how? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gro

[Puppet Users] The way Puppet installs things fail

Basically, the way puppet installs things things with /usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold install fails due to authentication WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated But if I do it from an ssh console normally, using apt-get install it works fine withou

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Multiple hierarchies with Hiera

Depending on what you are trying to do, using facts in your datadir can achieve a similar purpose: :yaml: :datadir: /etc/puppet/environments/%{environment}/data So you in essence have a different hierarchy per environment. On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:43 PM, llowder wrote: > > > On Thursday, Ja

[Puppet Users] Re: stuck installing puppet in RHEL 5

Please disregard this issue I found a fix.. On Tuesday, January 29, 2013 3:06:32 PM UTC-5, brutuz wrote: > > Hi All, > > Im trying to install but with no luck. Any idea what I did wrong ? > > ** mkdir -p /var/log/pe-console-auth > ** touch /var/log/pe-console-auth/cas.log > ** touch /var/log/

[Puppet Users] Re: Any way to "force" set the type provider? Problem with firewall module and iptables

Is it fine after the first run? On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 10:50:51 PM UTC-8, Erno Aapa wrote: > > Hi, > I have tricky problem and I hope that someone could help me. > I'm using puppetlabs-firewall module. My box doesn't have iptables > pre-installed. And because there is no /sbin/iptables pu

[Puppet Users] Need a solution for "puppet node clean" (puppet v3.0.2)

My environment heavily depends on exported resources to detect our mongo instances and to populate our haproxies. When we bring up and down nodes in AWS "puppet node clean" isn't cleaning up the exported resources so we get ghost machines loaded into those config files. Up until today I've att

Re: [Puppet Users] stuck installing puppet in RHEL 5

When I've seen that error before it indicates that MyISAM is the default engine on mysql. If you update /etc/my.cnf or /etc/mysql/my.cnf to use innodb as the default storage engine, the migration should succeed (add a line with 'default-storage-engine = innodb' to my.cnf in the [mysqld] section).

[Puppet Users] Resource ordering problem...

Afternoon all I'm sure this is probably a nice n easy one, but I can't work it out for the life of me... Anyhow, I've got the following code: # Load db yaml data $db_details = loadyaml('/etc/puppet/data/databases.yaml') notify{"DB Details loaded... About to parse.":} -> notify{"DB De

[Puppet Users] Re: Multiple hierarchies with Hiera

On Thursday, January 31, 2013 8:38:34 AM UTC-6, Schofield wrote: > > I am evaluating Hiera for use in our puppet setup to handle overrides > based on facts. Unfortunately the documentation is slim > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/15295. I am wondering if it is > possible to have mult

Re: [Puppet Users] Multiple hierarchies with Hiera

I've followed this pattern: http://nuknad.com/2011/02/11/self-classifying-puppet-nodes/ To accomplish basically the same thing. The structure of the hierarchy is static, but the values are are supplied are based on facts. So far, so good with this in my world. On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 6:38 AM, Sc

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Calling a "subclass" correctly in a node def?

I certainly found it so :-) On 31 Jan 2013 17:09, "Kodiak Firesmith" wrote: > Thanks very much Keith; if it's nearly as thorough as rpmlint I've no > doubt it will be illustrative and saddening to run my humble modules > through. :) > > On Thursday, January 31, 2013 11:18:22 AM UTC-5, Keith Burd

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Calling a "subclass" correctly in a node def?

That's a great point. Excuse me whilst I go rename a few modules... :/ On Thursday, January 31, 2013 11:21:13 AM UTC-5, Gary Larizza wrote: > > Also, do note that hyphens in class names will cause problems in Puppet > --> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5268 Underscores are preferred > f

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Calling a "subclass" correctly in a node def?

Thanks very much Keith; if it's nearly as thorough as rpmlint I've no doubt it will be illustrative and saddening to run my humble modules through. :) On Thursday, January 31, 2013 11:18:22 AM UTC-5, Keith Burdis wrote: > > If you like the style guide the you'll like puppet-lint - > https://git

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Calling a "subclass" correctly in a node def?

Also, do note that hyphens in class names will cause problems in Puppet --> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5268 Underscores are preferred for the reasons outlined in the Ticket. On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Keith Burdis wrote: > If you like the style guide the you'll like puppet-lin

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Calling a "subclass" correctly in a node def?

If you like the style guide the you'll like puppet-lint - https://github.com/rodjek/puppet-lint - Keith On 31 January 2013 16:15, Kodiak Firesmith wrote: > I figured this out via taking another look at the style guide. This is > resolved. > > Changed this to this: > > class mysql-server inh

[Puppet Users] Re: Calling a "subclass" correctly in a node def?

I figured this out via taking another look at the style guide. This is resolved. Changed this to this: class mysql-server inherits mysql{} ...to... class mysql::server inherits mysql{} And in node def: include mysql::server Worked perfectly. Thanks style guide! *http://docs.puppetlabs.co

RE: [SUSPECTED SPOOFING] [Puppet Users] how to get report or last_run_report

Ok a great thanks for the answer Cordialement, Bernard Granier CE Plateforme Système bernard.gran...@morpho.com 01 58 11 32 51 From: puppet-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:puppet-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Keith Burdis Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013

[Puppet Users] yum updates that exclude puppet managed packages

Something I came up with to allow me to upgrade my CentOS machines w/out overriding my Puppet definitions: http://technicalmusings.blogspot.com/2013/01/yum-update-that-excludes-puppet-managed.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group

[Puppet Users] Calling a "subclass" correctly in a node def?

Hi Guys! I played with this a bit and perused the Puppet3 docs, and tried a few different ways of calling the module with no joy before giving in and posting. I'm kind of new to all this so bear with me. *Goal of module* Singular module to hold both a mysql (client) and mysql-server class. Mo

Re: [SUSPECTED SPOOFING] [Puppet Users] how to get report or last_run_report

Perhaps 'puppet node' is what you're looking for? $ sudo puppet node status $(facter fqdn) [sudo] password for kburdis: lnxmgt-01.domain Currently active Last catalog: 2013-01-31T14:57:22.518Z Last facts: 2013-01-31T14:57:14.732Z To get more info you'll can install PuppetDB and that's as simple a

[Puppet Users] Re: Hiera parameter lookup, nesting variables and Puppet 3

On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 1:51:23 PM UTC-6, Edward Sargisson wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to reconcile the advice in the Puppet 3 class doc with our > current use of Hiera. We currently retrieve variables from Hiera in one big > collection while the Puppet 3 doc seems to indicate storing

Re: [Puppet Users] stuck installing puppet in RHEL 5

I got this error.. == PluginPuppetBaselineAddIndexingToSuportCreateBaseline: migrating == -- execute("CREATE INDEX index_on_baseline_id_resource_type_and_title ON baseline_resources (baseline_id, resorake aborted! An error has occurred, all later migrations canceled: Mysql::Error: Spec

Re: [Puppet Users] Referencing a variable from one class in another

On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 3:41:31 PM UTC-6, Ti Leggett wrote: > > > On Jan 30, 2013, at 2:33 PM, jcbollinger wrote: > > > Maybe we're just having a terminology problem. Puppet has no concept of > sub-modules, and the only construct available to hold reference-able, > non-global variables

[Puppet Users] Multiple hierarchies with Hiera

I am evaluating Hiera for use in our puppet setup to handle overrides based on facts. Unfortunately the documentation is slim http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/15295. I am wondering if it is possible to have multiple hierarchies and be able to choose which hierarchy to use when calling

RE: [SUSPECTED SPOOFING] [Puppet Users] how to get report or last_run_report

This post receive no answer, so I imagine that there is no API to know if a node has the state defined by manifest or if manifests have been applied without error ... Not so cool ... Cordialement, Bernard Granier CE Plateforme Système bernard.gran...@morpho.com 01 58 11 32 51 Hi, Using a co

Re: [Puppet Users] Referencing a variable from one class in another

On Jan 31, 2013, at 4:03 AM, Luke Bigum wrote: > For this specific example I would not model it this way. I would make the > Apache module provide an interface to allow other modules to add to itself. I > would make something like an 'apache::vhost' or 'apache::extra_conf_file', > which is jus

[Puppet Users] Re: directory mode

On Thursday, January 31, 2013 1:11:25 AM UTC-6, Kubes wrote: > > Hello, > > I am trying to set all the directroes in the tree to 775 and files to 664 > with Puppets fie resource. > > This woks fine with native chmod: # chmod -R a=r,ug+Xw,o+X > > But if I us this in puppet all is set to 775 >

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet service

Hi Keith, I am working on the same VM which they have provided.But this time need to overcome with this error. Actually in between disk space of master has been full so i have deleted number of logs file from master.i think becasue of that problem arrives. Thanks, Mamta On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 6

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet service

One of the best ways to learn Puppet is to go through the Learning Puppet documentation at http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/. They provide a VM that you can download and use so you can get started quite quickly. I'd suggest working through this as it will help you to understand the errors that

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet service

Hi Keith, It will really helpfull if could guide me for further step. Thanks, Mamta On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Mamta Garg wrote: > > Ran this command ,getting as in screeshot but All nodes are still showing > unresponsive. > > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Keith Burdis wrote: > >>

[Puppet Users] Re: how to customize puppet-haproxy module??

Hi there, sorry for coming back with the same Q but does anyone actual use puppet-haproxy module and give me some idea pls? Cheers!! On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 9:17:41 PM UTC, Sans wrote: > > Dear all, > > I've just started using puppet-haproxy module and planing to role it out > departme

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet service

Run it where you were getting the error you posted. - Keith On 31 Jan 2013 09:59, "Mamta Garg" wrote: > So this command i should run it on master machine? > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Keith Burdis wrote: > >> Try running the Puppet agent manually with 'puppet agent --test >> --verbose

Re: [Puppet Users] Referencing a variable from one class in another

On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 9:41:31 PM UTC, Ti Leggett wrote: > > On Jan 30, 2013, at 2:33 PM, jcbollinger wrote: > > >> not mash all the public bits in to one globally public class that has > no nitty gritty bits to implement. In my example ::params is > considered the header for the module

Re: [Puppet Users] All nodes are showing unresponsive

Can anyone please help! On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Mamta Garg wrote: > Hi , > > I have set the correct time on master and agent.But Not able to lauch > puppet dashboard. > Please guide? > > find attched screenshot. > > I thiugh because of servuce iam getting error ,I have tried to run belo

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet service

So this command i should run it on master machine? On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Keith Burdis wrote: > Try running the Puppet agent manually with 'puppet agent --test > --verbose'. The output should indicate what is preventing it from starting. > > - Keith > On 31 Jan 2013 09:44, "Mamta Gar

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet service

Try running the Puppet agent manually with 'puppet agent --test --verbose'. The output should indicate what is preventing it from starting. - Keith On 31 Jan 2013 09:44, "Mamta Garg" wrote: > Please find now. > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Nikola Petrov wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Modules from Forge

Thanks Guys for your advise and knowledge On Wednesday, 30 January 2013 17:30:08 UTC, Nan Liu wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:55 AM, jim >wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I have some questions about the download puppet modules from puppetforge: >> >> I'll take puppetlabs-dism as an example, once