Re: [Puppet Users] Git Repo Strategy

2014-09-30 Thread Eric Shamow
of orgs. -Eric --  Eric Shamow Sent with Airmail On September 30, 2014 at 4:17:45 PM, Tom Tucker (tktuc...@gmail.com) wrote: I just got back from PuppetConf last week and several presenters mentioned using more than one Git repo with Puppet.  Some even recommend having a repo per module

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Announce: nightly repos available

2014-08-27 Thread Eric Shamow
+1 great news Eric, thanks. -Eric On Aug 27, 2014, at 8:27 AM, Martijn mart...@heemels.com wrote: That's very nice. Should make testing a pre-release easier for many users than building from Git. Thanks, Martijn Op dinsdag 26 augustus 2014 19:23:54 UTC+2 schreef Eric Sorenson: After

Re: [Puppet Users] How to unzip archive to a master's location

2014-07-10 Thread Eric Shamow
%3DV23nCGNUz1WGoumaGyxz6h4Fi9Eodh_s65w%40mail.gmail.com https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAMo7R_cxbvg%3D6i%3DV23nCGNUz1WGoumaGyxz6h4Fi9Eodh_s65w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=emailutm_source=footer . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Eric Shamow Methodologies

Re: [Puppet Users] Server acceptance unit testing

2014-06-17 Thread Eric Shamow
%2BFqxH3J4ono67tdU_3ve5Aw%40mail.gmail.com https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CACqVBqB_kX8VUYwb2BHwaTpfCi%2B%2BFqxH3J4ono67tdU_3ve5Aw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=emailutm_source=footer . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Eric Shamow Methodologies Lead Puppet Labs

Re: [Puppet Users] Possible to copy ssh key from node A to node B?

2012-08-30 Thread Eric Shamow
Sandra, On the run so no time to write up a quick example - but take a look at exported resources. There's a design patterns page -- http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/exported_resources.html These are designed to do what you're looking for. -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http

Re: [Puppet Users] How can MCollective replace puppet kick?

2012-08-26 Thread Eric Shamow
environment, which is quite nice. -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 Join us for PuppetConf 2012 at the Mission Bay Convention Center in San Francisco, California on September 27th and 28th -- http://bit.ly/pcsig12 On Sunday, August 26, 2012 at 3:30 PM

Re: [Puppet Users] How can MCollective replace puppet kick?

2012-08-25 Thread Eric Shamow
Sandra, The mcollective agent is written in Ruby, but it's really tiny. You can use the mco controller plugin to view resource utilization over time, and it's generally infinitesimal. -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 Join us for PuppetConf

Re: [Puppet Users] Dynamic Lookup of facter variable.

2012-08-19 Thread Eric Shamow
Facts exist at top scope, as indicated in the scoping doc several people have referred you to on this list. Use $::ec2_instance_type Sent from my iPad On Aug 19, 2012, at 10:44 PM, Douglas Garstang doug.garst...@gmail.com wrote: I don't get it... if ! ( $ec2_instance_type in

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppetlabs lvm module

2012-08-15 Thread Eric Shamow
specific we can do to further assist you? -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 Join us for PuppetConf 2012 at the Mission Bay Convention Center in San Francisco, California on September 27th and 28th -- http://bit.ly/pcsig12 -- You received

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppetlabs lvm module

2012-08-14 Thread Eric Shamow
Everything else aside, you have a semicolon after ensure = present instead of a comma in your physical_volume resource. I'm not certain that it's causing the problem but it might be confusing the parser. -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 Join

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppetlabs lvm module

2012-08-14 Thread Eric Shamow
Oh right - for the code compression syntax…I don't use it and so I tend to forget it exists. Sorry about that. Is line 29 specifically this? absent: { It would be helpful to see in context with line numbers, such as in a gist. -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http

Re: [Puppet Users] Custom Providers and Environmemts.

2012-08-14 Thread Eric Shamow
as a puppet agent* and run puppet agent on the server. This will sync the types to the correct directory on the master and enable it to parse them when they are used elsewhere. -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 Join us for PuppetConf 2012

Re: [Puppet Users] variable scoping?

2012-08-12 Thread Eric Shamow
on a puppet master and so say $puppetmaster = true. When Puppet assembles the model of your system, which of the two is to be applied where? Dynamic scoping tried to guess at this. The idea here is to say, eliminate ambiguity - tell us exactly which one you want. -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional

Re: [Puppet Users] variable scoping?

2012-08-11 Thread Eric Shamow
-- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ ©631.871.6441 Join us for PuppetConf 2012 at the Mission Bay Convention Center in San Francisco, California on September 27th and 28th -- http://bit.ly/pcsig12 On Saturday, August 11, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Zachary Stern wrote: I'm

Re: [Puppet Users] variable scoping?

2012-08-11 Thread Eric Shamow
Sorry, that should be $puppetserver = $puppet::params::puppetserver -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ ©631.871.6441 Join us for PuppetConf 2012 at the Mission Bay Convention Center in San Francisco, California on September 27th and 28th -- http://bit.ly

Re: [Puppet Users] variable scoping?

2012-08-11 Thread Eric Shamow
Zachary, Is there a particular section of the scoping doc I can help you understand? -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ ©631.871.6441 Join us for PuppetConf 2012 at the Mission Bay Convention Center in San Francisco, California on September 27th and 28th

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Installing Modules.

2012-08-11 Thread Eric Shamow
mode, modules are installed in the module path of your puppetmaster. You can find this by looking in your puppet.conf, or by running puppet master --configprint modulepath On the master. -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ ©631.871.6441 Join us for PuppetConf

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Installing Modules.

2012-08-11 Thread Eric Shamow
I should add, the default path is /etc/puppet/modules for FOSS, and /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/modules for PE. -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ ©631.871.6441 Join us for PuppetConf 2012 at the Mission Bay Convention Center in San Francisco, California

Re: [Puppet Users] rand losing its randomness after using fqdn_rand

2012-08-01 Thread Eric Shamow
-- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 On Wednesday, August 1, 2012 at 1:13 PM, R.I.Pienaar wrote: - Original Message - From: Felipe Ortega orteg...@gmail.com (mailto:orteg...@gmail.com) To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com (mailto:puppet-users

Re: [Puppet Users] activeMQ client on the puppet server?

2012-07-26 Thread Eric Shamow
/mcollective/ In particular pay attention to the stuff on the broadcast paradigm and the publish/subscribe model. -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: proper usage of global variables / node variables / +=

2012-07-12 Thread Eric Shamow
release. Details: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/scope_and_puppet.html -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 On Thursday, July 12, 2012 at 1:27 AM, fp wrote: At this point, however, I'm hoping that one of the PuppetLabs guys will jump

Re: [Puppet Users] create multiple resources from an array of things.

2012-07-08 Thread Eric Shamow
-- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 On Sunday, July 8, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Wolf Noble wrote: Hi gang, I feel like I'm missing something fundamental here… I've got the following: class snmp::rhel::rh5enable { $collector = ['10.0.0.1', '10.0.0.2'] define

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet-server-3.0.0-0.1rc3.2 with foreman-1.0.0-0.4

2012-07-06 Thread Eric Shamow
be producing warnings in 2.7 and failing when the next major release hits. -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 On Friday, July 6, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Ohad Levy wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 6:49 PM, pdpinfo pdp...@tiscali.it (mailto:pdp

Re: [Puppet Users] Conditionals within a class based of something else than facter variable

2012-07-03 Thread Eric Shamow
the section on Conditionals. -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Style guide question..

2012-07-03 Thread Eric Shamow
On Friday, June 29, 2012 at 9:55 AM, jcbollinger wrote: Note, however, that elsewhere the style guide (version 1.1.2) says Classes should generally not declare other classes, which is a bunch of bologna. A Puppetlabs employee told me recently that he would have that removed, but evidently

Re: [Puppet Users] UX/UI of puppet help when face actions have unmet dependencies

2012-07-03 Thread Eric Shamow
- and if the user isn't looking, they have that same problem with every other application too. +1 to keeping errors on STDERR. It would be my expectation as a sysadmin that I could filter one from the other on output and I'd be fairly frustrated if I couldn't. -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Style guide question..

2012-07-03 Thread Eric Shamow
- I meant that the practice was more objectionable rather than the phrasing. However if it's defined elsewhere no need to repeat. -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Extending Puppet using Rubygems

2012-06-26 Thread Eric Shamow
Jason, Packaging gems as OS packages is pretty easy to do. You can use gem2rpm on RHEL systems or fpm (https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm) in the more general case. -Eric On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Jason Slagle raist...@tacorp.net wrote: On 06/25/2012 09:25 AM, Kelsey Hightower wrote:

Re: [Puppet Users] Clarification Request: The need for ruby 1.8.7 on a RHEL/CentOS 5 Puppet Master

2012-06-26 Thread Eric Shamow
Also as a note, there are (unofficial, but maintained by the CentOS maintainer, Karanbir Singh) packages for RHEL 5 at: http://centos.karan.org/el5/ruby187/ I've used these in production with much success. -Eric On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Matthaus Litteken matth...@puppetlabs.com

Re: [Puppet Users] Clarification Request: The need for ruby 1.8.7 on a RHEL/CentOS 5 Puppet Master

2012-06-26 Thread Eric Shamow
that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin Hobbes) - Eric Shamow e...@puppetlabs.com wrote: Also as a note, there are (unofficial, but maintained by the CentOS maintainer, Karanbir Singh) packages for RHEL 5

Re: [Puppet Users] can we avoid notify/subscribe firing on a mode change?

2012-06-18 Thread Eric Shamow
the same problems. They don't do it by refusing to build a new daily snapshot of parts of the software. -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To post

Re: [Puppet Users] can we avoid notify/subscribe firing on a mode change?

2012-06-18 Thread Eric Shamow
with hiera and conditionals. -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from

Re: [Puppet Users] can we avoid notify/subscribe firing on a mode change?

2012-06-18 Thread Eric Shamow
in Puppet. Clearly the community is not crying out for the solution as you've enunciated it. Maybe you've enunciated it poorly. In that case, write something to fix it and some demo usage. Code wins arguments. -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet / scalability

2012-05-14 Thread Eric Shamow
. -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 On Monday, May 14, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Alex Harvey alexharv...@gmail.com (mailto:alexharv...@gmail.com) wrote: Hi list, I am looking

Re: [Puppet Users] Managing system yum repositories with yumrepo cache issues

2012-05-04 Thread Eric Shamow
Just a note - it's better to do yum clean metadata than all in most cases. There's no reason to drop all that cached package stuff - you just want to get rid of the repo index. -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 On Friday, May 4, 2012 at 5:11 PM

Re: [Puppet Users] Determining if hiera (or any function) is installed on a node

2012-04-17 Thread Eric Shamow
As a +1 on this (and as the guy who wrote safe_hiera) -- It shouldn't be a function, the safety should be wrapped into hiera. But yes, this will get you the right syntax so you can just search/replace safe_hiera for hiera once it's fixed. -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http

Re: [Puppet Users] Getting started

2012-04-05 Thread Eric Shamow
Jo, Very good advice - Rodrick, I'd try the Learning Puppet VM to start and get used to the tool first. There's an excellent Learning Puppet doc as well - http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/ That should get you started. -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com

Re: [Puppet Users] stdlib module not working

2012-03-29 Thread Eric Shamow
Stefan, Looks related to https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13530, which I just opened. Make sure you ensure = present in the file_line resource. -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 On Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Dan White

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: vmware provisioning

2012-02-15 Thread Eric Shamow
a fairly straightforward task. -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Brian Gupta wrote: Foreman has support for this. (Tied into Foreman provisioning workflow). I am unaware of any other support for VMware

Re: [Puppet Users] Question about reusing classes/modules

2012-02-11 Thread Eric Shamow
I would avoid this approach - global variables aren't a good idea. Hiera would be a better approach: http://www.devco.net/archives/2011/06/05/hiera_a_pluggable_hierarchical_data_store.php http://www.devco.net/archives/2011/06/06/puppet_backend_for_hiera.php -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional

Re: [Puppet Users] Odd behavior with hiera 0.3.0

2012-02-09 Thread Eric Shamow
-- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 On Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 10:49 AM, windowsrefund wrote: $ cat /etc/hiera.yaml --- :hierarchy: - %{operatingsystem} - common :backends: - yaml :yaml: :datadir: /tmp/hieradata $ cat /tmp/hieradata

Re: [Puppet Users] Odd behavior with hiera 0.3.0

2012-02-09 Thread Eric Shamow
a quick script to grab the cached facts for a node and turn the relevant ones into hiera parameters, then use this to run hiera against an individual host. -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 On Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Eric Shamow

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: define hostclass with special characters

2012-02-08 Thread Eric Shamow
structure your thinking to match the infrastructure you're working with. -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 On Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 11:37 PM, sateesh wrote: Hi John, I have solve that class issue. I have specified

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Looping in Ruby DSL

2012-02-08 Thread Eric Shamow
. This leads you to defined types: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/definedtypes.html Which is probably the way you should do this. -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 On Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 11:46 PM, sateesh wrote: Hi John

Re: [Puppet Users] copying file(s) from agent to master??

2012-01-09 Thread Eric Shamow
Filebucket is the right answer. Good docs on it here: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/type.html#file And also the command-line utility to query or manage the bucket: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/man/filebucket.html -Erc -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com

Re: [Puppet Users] ETA for 2.7.10 ?

2012-01-05 Thread Eric Shamow
Jo, You can find the description of Puppet's release process here: http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/3d703849246bd43f/c98d096d51ed221e -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 On Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 3:54 PM

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Issue with RPM dependency issue

2011-11-23 Thread Eric Shamow
package. -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 On Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 9:25 AM, jcbollinger wrote: On Nov 22, 8:43 am, TisMe russlav...@gmail.com (http://gmail.com) wrote: I am running into an issue with perl-DBD-MySQL dependency

Re: [Puppet Users] Installing Oracle

2011-11-19 Thread Eric Shamow
Douglas, https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm It's pretty good at quick and dirty package building. -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 On Saturday, November 19, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: Ashely, Not familiar with fpm. What

Re: [Puppet Users] [foreman-users] dropping support for ruby 1.85?

2011-11-17 Thread Eric Shamow
To Mike's point, I backported from f13 or 14 SRPMs - can't remember which - with great regularity and very little problem to RHEL 5. Haven't done it in ages but it's not too bad. And where that fails, gem2rpm… -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c

Re: [Puppet Users] dropping support for ruby 1.85?

2011-11-15 Thread Eric Shamow
Not supported, but Karanbir Singh has made available 1.8.7 RPMs: http://centos.karan.org/el5/ruby187/ -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 On Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: On Nov 9, 2011, at 5:47 AM, Ohad Levy wrote

Re: [Puppet Users] Moving a puppet client is not as simple as I had hoped

2011-10-28 Thread Eric Shamow
The certname is only used for authentication - it is not part of the node lookup process. You can still use the mac-address-certname model, if you match with regexes in your node configuration. -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 On Friday

Re: [Puppet Users] Moving a puppet client is not as simple as I had hoped

2011-10-28 Thread Eric Shamow
I should add - this behavior is configurable: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/configuration.html#nodename -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 On Friday, October 28, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Eric Shamow wrote: The certname is only used

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet on Centos 6.0

2011-10-18 Thread Eric Shamow
and/or RPM break each other, there's little I can do to fix it in any automated or predictable way. -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 On Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Michael Stahnke wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:19 AM, jcbollinger

Re: [Puppet Users] issues with puppet service and mco puppetd

2011-09-26 Thread Eric Shamow
You don't actually need the ensure = stopped. If you are set to enable = false, that's good enough - ensure = stopped will kill the daemon every time it starts. -Eric -- Join us for PuppetConf (http://www.bit.ly/puppetconfsig), September 22nd and 23rd in Portland, OR. Eric Shamow

Re: [Puppet Users] run puppet as cron job

2011-09-22 Thread Eric Shamow
Hi Marshall, welcome! I'm pretty sure the service is pe-puppet and not pe-puppet-agent… Check in /etc/init.d. -- Join us for PuppetConf (http://www.bit.ly/puppetconfsig), September 22nd and 23rd in Portland, OR. Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441

Re: [Puppet Users] Facter variable $puppetversion

2011-09-12 Thread Eric Shamow
-- Join us for PuppetConf (http://www.bit.ly/puppetconfsig), September 22nd and 23rd in Portland, OR. Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 On Monday, September 12, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Douglas Garstang

Re: [Puppet Users] Facter variable $puppetversion

2011-09-12 Thread Eric Shamow
there really are remnants of an earlier install hanging around. -Eric -- Join us for PuppetConf (http://www.bit.ly/puppetconfsig), September 22nd and 23rd in Portland, OR. Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 On Monday, September 12, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Douglas

Re: [Puppet Users] Facter variable $puppetversion

2011-09-09 Thread Eric Shamow
On the same box, what does puppet agent --version give you? -Eric On Friday, September 9, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Ken Barber k...@puppetlabs.com (mailto:k...@puppetlabs.com) wrote: What does: puppet -e 'notice($puppetversion)'

Re: [Puppet Users] Facter variable $puppetversion

2011-09-09 Thread Eric Shamow
Right, so your client is running 2.7.3, not 0.25. That's why faster is returning 2.7.3. On the master try running the same. If it doesn't work try puppetd --version -Eric On Friday, September 9, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Eric Shamow e

Re: [Puppet Users] Facter variable $puppetversion

2011-09-09 Thread Eric Shamow
Notify is a resource, notice() is a function. So notice() is evaluated on the server, whereas notify{} is evaluated on the client. My suspicion is that you somehow have two versions of the client binary hanging around. Perhaps one that is running when you execute puppet at the shell, and

Re: [Puppet Users] Facter variable $puppetversion

2011-09-09 Thread Eric Shamow
I know that notice() is a function, and notify{} is a resource. The documentation says that much. However, it doesn't really go beyond that. The documentation provides examples of how to use notify{} to notify another resource when it changes, but I don't believe it gives you any indication

Re: [Puppet Users] Creating manifests automatically from an existing configuration?

2011-08-11 Thread Eric Shamow
This could also be a place for the use of exported resources. End result is similar to puppet resource but can change dynamically, which is nice. -- Join us for PuppetConf (http://www.bit.ly/puppetconfsig), September 22nd and 23rd in Portland, OR. Eric Shamow Professional Services http

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Creating manifests automatically from an existing configuration?

2011-08-11 Thread Eric Shamow
John, I suspect you're right. User requirements FTW. -Eric -- Join us for PuppetConf (http://www.bit.ly/puppetconfsig), September 22nd and 23rd in Portland, OR. Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 On Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 2:45 PM, jcbollinger

Re: [Puppet Users] Step by step guide to setting user passwords

2011-08-06 Thread Eric Shamow
Just a note - ralsh is also available from the puppet command line as puppet resource. -Eric On Aug 6, 2011, at 2:22 AM, John Martin wrote: You can also use the ralsh command where the user is created as long as puppet is installed. The command will spit out the complete user dsl.

Re: [Puppet Users] Validating a puppet configuration

2011-07-30 Thread Eric Shamow
Have you considered bootstrapping a test suite like cucumber-puppet? https://github.com/nistude/cucumber-puppet -Eric Topic: Validating a puppet configuration Lars Kellogg-Stedman lar...@gmail.com Jul 29 06:33AM -0700 ^ If anyone out there follows Serverfault, this is a duplicate of

[Puppet Users] Recurse broken in File type?

2010-12-06 Thread Eric Shamow
Was going to open a new ticket but saw this -- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5414 The user reports the issue in 2.6.3, i see it in 2.6.4 as well, on CentOS 5.5. If I modify a file in a folder that is being deployed recursively, that update is not happening on the clients. Setting

[Puppet Users] Recurse broken in File type?

2010-12-03 Thread Eric Shamow
Was going to open a new ticket but saw this -- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5414 The user reports the issue in 2.6.3, i see it in 2.6.4 as well, on CentOS 5.5. If I modify a file in a folder that is being deployed recursively, that update is not happening on the clients. This has led

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Redefine package type

2010-09-09 Thread Eric Shamow
Well as a starter -- This is a provider called rpm_plus.rb -- I found most of it floating around on the web and I seem to recall tweaking some small part of it, although I don't recall now what it was... in any event this works and is in use in our environment. Provider looks like:

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet system deployment hanging ..

2010-08-17 Thread Eric Shamow
I have seen this behavior before as well. I've also seen it where yum-updater (which is evil and shouldn't be running, but in some cases hasn't been turned off yet by kickstart or puppet) will switch on and demolish a bootstrap Puppet run. It would help if the yum handler was a little more

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet system deployment hanging ..

2010-08-17 Thread Eric Shamow
Yep, this was our solution -- I raised the issue more to point out that finding out that yum-updater was the problem was difficult as a result of quiet execution and yum's hang. Once we figured out the problem the solution was fairly easy, but that's almost always the case... -Eric On Tue, Aug

Re: [Puppet Users] Dashboard or Foreman

2010-06-15 Thread Eric Shamow
Having tried both I settled on Foreman, although I haven't checked out Puppet-Dashboard after the 1.0 release. Foreman just provides more information, I find, although Puppet-Dashboard looks slightly slicker. Foreman also seems easily hackable/extensible and comes with a nice query tool. -Eric

[Puppet Users] Job Posting: Hiring UNIX/Linux SA/SE in NYC area

2010-06-08 Thread Eric Shamow
, please drop me a line. Thanks, -Eric Shamow -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: mcollective scalability

2010-05-06 Thread Eric Shamow
Matt, Really great posts -- you've inspired me to take a crack at MCollective. -Eric On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:11 AM, Matt Wallace li...@truthisfreedom.org.uk wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 23:31 -0700, donavan wrote: 2000 nodes certainly is within my goals with the design, that said there