Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Labs Announces Puppet Forge, a Central Repository for Puppet Modules

2010-06-11 Thread Eric Gerlach
ther, too. :-P > > Well if you have features you had done or had in mind - we'd welcome the > input. Late to the party... catching up on lists. Features I'd like? Ratings # of Downloads I want to be able to see how "good" a module is before I use it. There

Re: [Puppet Users] is puppet the right tool for me?

2010-04-13 Thread Eric Gerlach
ta is in /srv, and that's on a separate partition), then make sure your preseed doesn't nuke that partition. Keep backups in case you need to restore it. We can restore a host in about 25 minutes if we care to do it quickly. Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator Federati

Re: [Puppet Users] is puppet the right tool for me?

2010-04-08 Thread Eric Gerlach
ven't had a chance to try it yet, so I can't vouch for it. http://controltier.org/wiki/Main_Page Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator Federation of Students University of Waterloo p: (519) 888-4567 x36329 e: egerl...@feds.uwaterloo.ca w: http://feds.ca/ "To Serve, Empower,

Re: [Puppet Users] preseed/late_command

2010-03-18 Thread Eric Gerlach
, when the machine boots for the first time, it has enough information to contact the puppetmaster and do a run. Since puppetd does a run when it starts, this starts the configuration process. Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator Federation of Students University of Waterloo p: (519) 88

Re: [Puppet Users] The Foreman & Mailing List Topics

2010-03-04 Thread Eric Gerlach
s that high, and besides, that's what ^R is for (mutt user here). Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator Federation of Students University of Waterloo p: (519) 888-4567 x36329 e: egerl...@feds.uwaterloo.ca -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gro

Re: [Puppet Users] Magazine article comparing CPU usage of Puppet vs. Cfengine

2010-02-24 Thread Eric Gerlach
Ruby 1.9? It's supposed to be a lot faster than 1.8. Haven't tested it myself, though. Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator Federation of Students University of Waterloo p: (519) 888-4567 x36329 e: egerl...@feds.uwaterloo.ca -- You received this message because you are sub

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet and Drupal

2010-02-09 Thread Eric Gerlach
=> present, provider => "drupal-module", target => "/etc/drupal/6/sites/all" } or the like. Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator Federation of Students University of Waterloo p: (519) 888-4567 x36329 e: egerl...@feds.uwaterloo.ca -- You recei

Private data in manifests (was: Re: [Puppet Users] Using Git to distribute Puppet configs)

2010-01-29 Thread Eric Gerlach
a general rule? If so, what's the best practice for setting passwords and private keys? Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator Federation of Students University of Waterloo p: (519) 888-4567 x36329 e: egerl...@feds.uwaterloo.ca -- You received this message because you are subscribed t

Re: [Puppet Users] Newbie question: how to handle prompts from packages?

2010-01-27 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 09:11:49PM +1100, James Turnbull wrote: > See the responsefile attribute of the package type. > > http://docs.reductivelabs.com/references/stable/type.html#package You can do that now? Oh. That makes me happy, and I love Debian :-) Cheers, -- Eri

Re: [Puppet Users] hosts update trouble

2010-01-26 Thread Eric Gerlach
petd --onetime, and don't start the service. Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator Federation of Students University of Waterloo p: (519) 888-4567 x36329 e: egerl...@feds.uwaterloo.ca -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users

Re: [Puppet Users] best way to make puppet temporarily ignore a file?

2010-01-22 Thread Eric Gerlach
ore options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > > To post to this gr

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: reload/restarting puppetd after puppet.conf change

2010-01-22 Thread Eric Gerlach
puppetd was running it would not change its listen state. A restart was required. I think. Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator Federation of Students University of Waterloo p: (519) 888-4567 x36329 e: egerl...@feds.uwaterloo.ca -- You received this message because you are subscrib

Re: [Puppet Users] I have re-entered puppet dependancy hell. :(

2009-12-18 Thread Eric Gerlach
t; group. > > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?h

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: How to override / redefine outside child class (usecase and example detailled)

2009-12-18 Thread Eric Gerlach
= 'bar' > >   include configsets::foobar > > > > } > > > > And all the actual service includes are done in the module called > > configesets, which can have further abstraction like node-types, i.e. > > physical nodes (class is included depending on the virt

[Puppet Users] An XML Provider similar to ParsedFile

2009-12-04 Thread Eric Gerlach
use reinventing the wheel. Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator Federation of Students University of Waterloo p: (519) 888-4567 x36329 e: egerl...@feds.uwaterloo.ca -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to

Re: [Puppet Users] puppetmaster SQL failing

2009-12-02 Thread Eric Gerlach
> > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Eric Gerlach > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Just upgraded from 0.24.8 to 0.25.1. I've run into the following problem. > > After a while, my puppetmaster fails with this type of error: > > > > info: Expiring t

Re: [Puppet Users] puppetmaster SQL failing

2009-12-01 Thread Eric Gerlach
In case it helps, it seems to happen when two clients are trying to talk to the puppetmaster simultaneously. I can't confirm that conclusively, but that seems to be the case. Cheers, Eric On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 04:25:49PM -0500, Eric Gerlach wrote: > Hi all, > > Just upgraded

[Puppet Users] puppetmaster SQL failing

2009-12-01 Thread Eric Gerlach
names` WHERE (`fact_names`.`name` = 'kernelrelease') LIMIT 1 err: Puppet::Parser::Compiler failed with error ActiveRecord::MissingAttributeError: missing attribute: restype on node gold.fs.uwaterloo.ca And then never sends out a catalog again. Any ideas? Cheers, -- Eric G

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet Not Running chkconfig correctly.

2009-11-10 Thread Eric Gerlach
4.d/S97yum-updatesd > > rc5.d/S97yum-updatesd > > rc6.d/K03yum-updatesd > > [r...@dansrh3 rc.d]# > > > > > > I will make a note on the bug. > > > > regards, > > > > Dan > > > > > > > >

[Puppet Users] Re: Using variables in virtual resources

2009-09-28 Thread Eric Gerlach
the virtual resource is defined, not at the time it's realized. You might be able to do something like: realize User[kenneth] User[kenneth] { groups => $server_type ? { typeA => "wheel", default => undef, } } to realize it the wa

[Puppet Users] Re: managing ip addresses

2009-08-18 Thread Eric Gerlach
y of determining, based on the information you get from facts, which server gets which IP address. You could do this with an external node classifier, or some algorithm (custom functions could help here). Don't know if anyone can provide better ideas than that, but hopefully this gives

[Puppet Users] Re: Notifying a service when exported resources go away

2009-07-28 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 04:09:22PM -0700, Teyo Tyree wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Eric Gerlach > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm working with nagios, and if I'm de-configuring a server manually, I'd > > like > > t

[Puppet Users] Notifying a service when exported resources go away

2009-07-24 Thread Eric Gerlach
| |>> If I don't have a notify on the resources entry, the nagios host entries go away, but nagios doesn't refresh. If I have it on the resources entry, it makes the service depend on it, and so won't purge: "Service[nagios3] still depends on me -- not purging"

[Puppet Users] Nagios and other services

2009-06-26 Thread Eric Gerlach
c) In some nagios::apache2 class d) Something else entirely Thanks in advance! Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator Federation of Students University of Waterloo p: (519) 888-4567 x36329 e: egerl...@feds.uwaterloo.ca --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received th

[Puppet Users] Re: Testing if a resource is already defined

2009-06-19 Thread Eric Gerlach
n one place. I'm just a journeryman myself, but I think according to The Puppet Way (TM) that's a Bad Thing (TM). If you make sure that the host is only potentially defined in one place, you don't have to worry about this. Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator Fe

[Puppet Users] Re: use of the resource resource

2009-06-02 Thread Eric Gerlach
ure which types are supported by "resources" right now, but I'm pretty sure "file" isn't among them. Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator Federation of Students University of Waterloo p: (519) 888-4567 x36329 e: egerl...@feds.uwaterloo.ca --~--~-~--~-

[Puppet Users] Re: Pitching Puppet - How does it work question

2009-05-06 Thread Eric Gerlach
ly that change? Who notices the change, the client > or the server? > > Thanks, just trying to be the "salesman" > > > -- Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator Federation of Students University of Waterloo p: (519) 888-4567 x36329 e: egerl...@feds.uwaterloo

[Puppet Users] Re: Automatically update host

2009-05-06 Thread Eric Gerlach
e puppet master server would have these > details from facter, and wonder if the above can be scripted. > > Thanks for any inputs. > > Hari > > > -- Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator Federation of Students University of Waterloo p: (519) 888-4567 x36329 e: egerl...@f

[Puppet Users] Re: Syntax checking hook when using git?

2009-04-23 Thread Eric Gerlach
correct version of Puppet is in all of those places. > > > > Is there a pretty way to solve this problem?  How do you do it? > > > > Is there, perhaps, a way to create a standalone syntax checker that > > doesn't require the rest of Puppet? > > > > Thanks!

[Puppet Users] Re: Installing 0.24.8 as gem on Debian

2009-04-01 Thread Eric Gerlach
gt; this second I learned (from your message) of the existence of "uupdate". > I'll give it a try next time I need to update a Debian package to a > newer upstream version. > > -- > Kyle Cordes > http://kylecordes.

[Puppet Users] Re: Installing 0.24.8 as gem on Debian

2009-03-25 Thread Eric Gerlach
d for Debian > sid, you can download it from packages.debian.org and install it on an > older Debian system. As a point of reference, it took about 2-3 weeks for 0.24.7 to get packaged. You'll have to get it from the experimental repository, though. Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach, Network

[Puppet Users] Re: undefined method `controllable?'

2009-03-09 Thread Eric Gerlach
submit a bug report to have a good error message added for that case. If it's reproducible, then I think it would be good to fix it up so that others aren't confused the way you were (and I would have been). Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator Federation of Students Universi

[Puppet Users] Exported resources not exporting?

2009-02-14 Thread Eric Gerlach
2009-02-14 19:35:38 I know I'm showing a custom type, but it happened with the Host type as well. That time, I thought it was something I did, so I didn't capture it. Has anyone seen anything like this? Any ideas where I could start debugging? Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach, Network Administra

[Puppet Users] Re: Best practices question

2009-02-10 Thread Eric Gerlach
t; Hope this helps. Thanks for the quick responses, Larry and Felix. Now that I think about it, haivng "network" as a module makes a lot of sense. I do want to ask the question: "Is the network up?" Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach, Network Adminis

[Puppet Users] Best practices question

2009-02-09 Thread Eric Gerlach
t/wrong answers, but I'm done for the day and it's what I want to start with tomorrow, so I thought I'd seek some advice before I do. Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator Federation of Students University of Waterloo p: (519) 888-4567 x36329

[Puppet Users] Re: Automating removal of an application

2009-01-30 Thread Eric Gerlach
stems without being done through puppet. For example, if a new user is added, that could be an admin doing something stupid, or it could be a rootkit. But unless something tells me about it, I might never know. We chose puppet over bcfg2 because of the notation (bcfg2 is XML! Gah!) and the u

[Puppet Users] Re: Some high-level pre-install questions

2008-12-17 Thread Eric Gerlach
> prefetch and flush would be a better way to do it. > > Gotcha - yeah, puppet has no way to handle this right now. Maybe I'll take this to the dev list after the holidays to get some help working on it. It's something I'd like to use. Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach, Network Adm

[Puppet Users] Re: Some high-level pre-install questions

2008-12-16 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:36:03AM -0800, Adam Jacob wrote: > > On Dec 15, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Eric Gerlach wrote: > > I do have some questions, however, mostly of the status-checkup > > variety. > > For all of these, assume an implicit "and how can I help?",

[Puppet Users] Some high-level pre-install questions

2008-12-16 Thread Eric Gerlach
seem to really be fleshed out, and only seems to be supported through "resources { purge => x}". Are there plans to extend this further? Anyone hacked something like this together for now? Thanks in advance for your help, I'm looking forward to trying out puppet. Cheers, --