Re: [Puppet Users] Vcsrepo module use git with certificate

variable and specify a script which calls ssh -i ... $@ Silviu It doesn't support certificates currently but I am happy to take a feature request for it: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/modules/issues/new Just specify the module in the ticket description as vcsrepo. Regards James Turnbull

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet modules - where can I suggest something and/or submit a patch

Current module version is fine. We'll be introducing VCS back end capabilities in the next release. On Jun 25, 2010 12:56 PM, Silviu Paragina sil...@paragina.ro wrote: On 25.06.2010 17:44, James Turnbull wrote: You can log tickets and submit patches for our modules at: http

[Puppet Users] Get started with Puppet Development - the DeveloperBootstrap module

...@puppetlabs.com email address. Thanks James Turnbull -- 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...@googlegroups.com

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Separate install for just client code?

Todd Zullinger wrote: Forrie wrote: What is the disadvantage of using the puppet gem vs. installing from source (install.rb)? Well, I wouldn't recommend that either. I much prefer a proper packaging system like dpkg or rpm. But that's just my opinion. :) +1. Regards James Turnbul --

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Separate install for just client code?

a ticket. Regards James Turnbull -- 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...@googlegroups.com. For more

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Separate install for just client code?

Forrie wrote: I can't find the ticket link. http://projects.puppetlabs.com/ FWIW: These are the files installed for the server component: ./etc/puppet ./etc/puppet/fileserver.conf ./etc/puppet/manifests ./etc/puppet/puppetca.conf ./etc/puppet/puppetd.conf

Re: [Puppet Users] puppetca unable to sign new certs - Invalid argument error

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Re: [Puppet Users] stack level too deep

and --debug so we can see where you end up in an endless loop? And add --trace too will help. Regards James Turnbull -- 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

Re: [Puppet Users] Could not run Puppet configuration client: undefined method `keys' for nil:NilClass

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

Eric Gerlach wrote: On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 09:44:59PM +1000, James Turnbull wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Lathrop wrote: Haha! So much for my purchase of puppetstrings.net! I guess I can scrap the crappy code I had put together, too. :-P Well if you have

Re: [Puppet Users] After reporting an issue

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[Puppet Users] Redmine Ticket Creation and Updates via email

email me directly. IMPORTANT NOTE - the new source/emission email address for tickets is tick...@puppetlabs.com. If you have filters or rules that use the old address (redm...@puppetlabs.com) then you will need to change them! Thanks James Turnbull -- You received this message because you

Re: [Puppet Users] Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass

mismatch is your actual problem - has anything changed there? Regards James Turnbull -- 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

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet AIX contributions and small AIX nfs mountpoint snippet

they're reviewed they can be merged into core. Thanks James Turnbull -- 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

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: using puppetforge modules

. This is the model we're going for ... The next update will address this issue and specify that module is called by the sole name of the application/function. Regards James Turnbull -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To post

Re: [Puppet Users] Easy way to determine if theres duplicate Documentation Tickets in Redmine?

. Let me know if that works - if not we can look at another field perhaps. Cheers James Turnbull -- 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

Re: [Puppet Users] Easy way to determine if there's duplicate Documentation Tickets in Redmine?

Affected URL. Regards James Turnbull -- 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...@googlegroups.com

Re: [Puppet Users] Is sshkey host_aliases new in 0.25?

release currently supported allowing you to see what was supported in each. Regards James Turnbull -- 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

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

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Lathrop wrote: Haha! So much for my purchase of puppetstrings.net! I guess I can scrap the crappy code I had put together, too. :-P Well if you have features you had done or had in mind - we'd welcome the input. Cheers James -BEGIN

Re: [Puppet Users] Small error in Docs: Language Tutorial

. Otherwise let me know and I'll make the change. Thanks James Turnbull -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEVAwUBS/x/NyFa/lDkFHAyAQJamggA35ltCoba9ZDEil562BvGALZa2il/gc7B

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: is anyone using a tool to diagram their manifests?

that result from their use. Whilst not a tool you can use puppetdoc to document your manifests and output it as Rdoc/HTML: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Puppet_Manifest_Documentation Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com

[Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: Puppet 0.25.5 available!

as useradd) 1f086c2 Fix for #3114 (ruby's arbitrary limit on process groups too low) Regards James Turnbull -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEVAwUBS/HtuCFa/lDkFHAyAQKLpAf+KFHybEs/wYERfud+17RYqoC8Z99JXrI7

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppetcamp

and won't be attending. :( Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios) * Hardening Linux (http://tinyurl.com/hardeninglinux

Re: [Puppet Users] Multiple Puppet Servers

be nice to have a DNS SRV record for puppet. http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3669 Please feel free to add comments/requirements. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com

[Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: Puppet 0.25.5 - Release Candidate 3 available!

(ruby's arbitrary limit on process groups too low) Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios) * Hardening Linux (http://tinyurl.com

Re: [Puppet Users] Have I found a bug with variables in nodes?

is called ;) Whoa. This should be called out in the external node docs, as I simply assumed this happened after the node classifier is called. +1000 I've updated the External Nodes documentation with this and it'll appear when I next push the site. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author

Re: [Puppet Users] Have I found a bug with variables in nodes?

for the release after Rowlf. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios) * Hardening Linux (http://tinyurl.com/hardeninglinux

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet-module-apache

/puppet-apache Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios) * Hardening Linux (http://tinyurl.com/hardeninglinux) -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet-module-apache

modules on Debian/Ubuntu. http://github.com/jamtur01/puppet-apache-modules Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios) * Hardening

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet docs, defined types and requires.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/05/10 1:43 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: I don't know if it's just me, but I find this example horribly confusing, and I'm wondering if it's just really out of date. Patches accepted... :) Regards James - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Dashboard packages updated for V1.0 release

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/05/10 9:49 AM, Ian Ward Comfort wrote: On 3 May 2010, at 3:47 AM, James Turnbull wrote: On 3/05/10 8:19 PM, Kenneth Holter wrote: I downloaded the puppet-dashboard-1.0.0-2.noarch.rpm and installed it, and found that the init script got

[Puppet Users] Introducing Scaffold

type_name I?d welcome feedback, testing, and ideas (and code!) on how to extend it. The idea is that once we?ve got a strong working tool we?ll look to integrate something like the result into Puppet mainline as a provisioning and template system. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet 2.5.4 and Ruby 1.9.1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cameron Smith wrote: Thanks for the info James! I'll drop down and try again :) Cameron It'd be great if you could the specific issues you had as bug tickets so we can be sure we fix them for Ruby 1.9.x Thanks James Turnbull - -- Author

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet for switches

. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios) * Hardening Linux (http://tinyurl.com/hardeninglinux) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

[Puppet Users] Puppet Dashboard packages updated for V1.0 release

Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios) * Hardening Linux (http://tinyurl.com/hardeninglinux) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Dashboard packages updated for V1.0 release

for it: -- [r...@puppetmaster ~]# rpm -qpl puppet-dashboard-1.0.0-2.noarch.rpm|grep init.d /etc/rc.d/init.d}/puppet-dashboard Thanks Kenneth I've fixed the problem and pushed a new package. Thanks James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet 2.5.4 and Ruby 1.9.1

is not currently compatible with Ruby 1.9.x. We've got some fixes in for 1.9 but we've got some other work to do before its ready. As indicated though Facter should work fine. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings

[Puppet Users] Puppet training in Australia

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was at DevOps Down Under last weekend and there was some discussion of a Puppet training in Australia. I am trying to gauge further interest and see what the numbers are like. A show of hands? Sydney/Melbourne? Thanks James Turnbull

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet training in Australia

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4/05/10 10:11 AM, mattimust...@gmail.com wrote: Another for sydney here plus I could possibly get a few people interested from $WORK. What will it cost? That's a TBC whenw get some idea of numbers. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author

Re: [Puppet Users] Class constructors?

a global variable. Are there any plans to allow classes in puppet to take a constructor, or something like it, so that arguments can get passed to the class? This feature is in the next feature release, Rowlf. http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Release_Notes Regards James Turnbull

[Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: Puppet 0.25.5 - Release Candidate 2 available!

James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios) * Hardening Linux (http://tinyurl.com/hardeninglinux) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: [Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: Puppet 0.25.5 - Release Candidate 2 available!

in the factpath option to ensure continuity also. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios) * Hardening Linux (http://tinyurl.com

[Puppet Users] Watchers replaces voting...

of a particular issue. Thanks James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios) * Hardening Linux (http://tinyurl.com/hardeninglinux) -BEGIN

Re: [Puppet Users] HTTP Authentication type

and jane - then you'd need to use a file resource and supply the file. Regards James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios) * Hardening Linux

Re: [Puppet Users] cannot get certificates working

featured and faster 0.25.x branches. Regards James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios) * Hardening Linux (http://tinyurl.com

Re: [Puppet Users] Wiki: Syntax woes? Page preview on non-edited page - big mess :)

That's also on the TODO list - we're going to rewrite the Markdown plug-in and enable proper macro support and fix the help pop-up and the preview function. Currently the {toc} macro in Redmine in core is weird and needs to be abstracted into a separate function. Regards James Turnbull

Re: [Puppet Users] Wiki: Syntax woes? Page preview on non-edited page - big mess :)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/04/10 7:42 AM, Sebastian Kayser wrote: Greetings, I am new to the Redmine Wiki which powers the Puppet Wiki. I wanted to fix a link in the Downloading Puppet - Solaris section [1], but when I try to edit the page, the shown page source /

Re: [Puppet Users] OS Conditional exec.

On 27/04/2010 2:17 AM, R.I.Pienaar wrote: - Douglas Garstangdoug.garst...@gmail.com wrote: I wasn't able to get this to run for only CentOS. I tried a few different things in the site.pp. I wish I could put a case statement site.pp is a special file, it doesn't get evaluated on every

Re: [Puppet Users] Pushing a file only if another does not exist.

to the standard is going to give a lot of enterprises the excuse to say We are secure because we're PCI DSS compliant. /me puts head in hands at the victory of standards over risk management. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com

Re: [Puppet Users] Issue after upgrading to 0.25.4

output from the client and the master? Thanks James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios) * Hardening Linux (http://tinyurl.com

Re: [Puppet Users] behavioural testing of puppet manifests with cucumber-puppet

refactorings. http://blog.nistu.de/cucumber_puppet_0_0_3_released.html Let me know what you think! Wow. Awesome. Only comment I'd make - and it's more a suggestion than a critique - is that it'd be great to be able to bundle the features inside modules to aid in portability. Regards James

Re: [Puppet Users] SuSE and zypper

/group/puppet-dev/browse_thread/thread/8c7b6593e2ca5a5b?hl=en_US Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios) * Hardening Linux

Re: [Puppet Users] SuSE and zypper

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/04/10 9:26 PM, Alpár Török wrote: 2010/4/14 James Turnbull ja...@lovedthanlost.net: Alpar wrote: Hi, I found the zypper provider mentioned on this list in another thread, but it failes with the flowing error : Package[kvm]/ensure

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet.type is deprecated

removed the old Puppet files? Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios) * Hardening Linux (http://tinyurl.com/hardeninglinux

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet.type is deprecated

. I suggest deleting Puppet from a client (removing the /usr/lib/ruby/etc/puppet direcotry) and then re-installing the package. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro

Re: [Puppet Users] dependencies

can also install graphviz, which comes with the dot application, which you can use to turn the text files into images: dot -Tpng /var/puppet/state/graphs/resources.dot -o /tmp/configuration.png Regards James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Dashboard packages now available!

and we're using the older method. We're working to do separate packages for older and newer RH/Fedora releases. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Dashboard packages now available!

On 8 April 2010 00:20, Stu Teasdale s...@drogna.org.uk wrote: On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 05:48:42PM +1000, James Turnbull wrote: Hi all I've created RPM and DEB packages for the Puppet Dashboard 1.0.0rc1. These are available via APT and Yum repositories hosted by Puppet Labs. These are first

[Puppet Users] Puppet Dashboard packages now available!

of the installation process and the RPM packages are signed with that key. The Dashboard will be installed in /usr/share/puppet-dashboard and you run the server from here or create a Passenger configuration. Regards James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Dashboard packages now available!

it prompt you to install the GPG key? Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios) * Hardening Linux (http://tinyurl.com/hardeninglinux

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Dashboard packages now available!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/04/10 11:09 PM, Daniel Kerwin wrote: Do you have something like a release tarball? I'd like to create a Gentoo ebuild for it. http://yum.puppetlabs.com/sources/ Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet Dashboard packages now available!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/04/10 10:38 AM, Michael DeHaan wrote: On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:48 AM, James Turnbull ja...@lovedthanlost.net wrote: Hi all I've created RPM and DEB packages for the Puppet Dashboard 1.0.0rc1. These are available via APT and Yum

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet Dashboard packages now available!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/04/10 10:38 AM, Michael DeHaan wrote: On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:48 AM, James Turnbull ja...@lovedthanlost.net wrote: Hi all I've created RPM and DEB packages for the Puppet Dashboard 1.0.0rc1. These are available via APT and Yum

Re: [Puppet Users] Specifying Yum Options

. (i.e. Download Only, Enable Repo, Group Install, etc.) There's a ticket that relates to this: http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/2247 We've been tossing it around for a bit now. Feel free to add additional requirements/comments there. Cheers James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Environment settings not functional

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31/03/10 6:29 PM, Tore wrote: I wish I could update the documentation on the wiki, but for some reason Redemi believes I've allready got an registered account, but I'm not able to log in with OpenID :/ What's your user name? Regards James

Re: [Puppet Users] REST API for puppet

On 31 March 2010 11:36, Paul Lathrop paul.lath...@gmail.com wrote: It does exist! Sadly, the documentation is the code, as far as I've been able to determine. You can get a fair amount of information if you are using a webserver like Apache in front of puppetmasterd by watching your access

Re: [Puppet Users] Inline include

can't? Have you had a look at the simple examples of classifiers on the wiki? Or as mentioned you could use Dashboard or Foreman. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook

Re: [Puppet Users] Inline include

I am looking for. Douglas I recommend the Puppet Dashboard or External Nodes. http://projects.reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/External_Nodes Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http

[Puppet Users] Puppet Wiki Migrated from Trac to Redmine

they appeared. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios) * Hardening Linux (http://tinyurl.com/hardeninglinux) -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Puppet Users] (* Checking puppet managed servers for success *)

? Carl beat me to it - but yes Dashboard and Foreman. If you want a command line version - in the ext directory of the package is a script called puppetlast that will return this on the command line and could be integrated into Nagios etc. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System

Re: [Puppet Users] multiple environments different manifests not working: solved!

yourself? Cheers James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios) * Hardening Linux (http://tinyurl.com/hardeninglinux) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Exec doesn't work with Ubuntu Server 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) 64bit

-lang.org/issues/show/2739 Kudos to Lucas! Are you guys going to backport the patch or wait for the Ruby guys to release? Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios

Re: [Puppet Users] disable ssl

issues and perhaps we can solve those? Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios) * Hardening Linux (http://tinyurl.com

Re: [Puppet Users] Is it possible for puppet to compile packages?

package requirements... What Ohad said. If, and it is rarely, I have to do this then I build some own RPM packages and stick them in a custom Yum repo and manage them like that. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling

Re: [Puppet Users] Tons of configuration version reports

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/03/10 3:40 AM, R.I.Pienaar wrote: - Kent Rankin rankin.k...@gmail.com wrote: This started about three days after I upgraded to 0.25 on EPEL. That time delay confused me a great deal. Is this the standard behavior on 0.25? Is there

Re: [Puppet Users] Tons of configuration version reports

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/03/10 7:12 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: R.I.Pienaar wrote: http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/3043 it seems to be related to the ongoing pain with execs Ahh, I think I may have run into that and that's why I ended up with the commands

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet 0.24.8 RPM (0.25.4 client not backwards compatible)

this information it's really hard to help people and identify what issues exist, if any. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet 0.24.8 RPM (0.25.4 client not backwards compatible)

respond here but they only increment releases after extensive testing. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios) * Hardening Linux

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet 0.24.8 RPM (0.25.4 client not backwards compatible)

that is tripped because of the reverse look-up rather than a side-wide SSL issue. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios) * Hardening

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet on os x: definitive setup notes?

. Puppet doesn't currently work with Ruby 1.9 I don't believe there is a definitive guide but there is this wiki page: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetMacOSX Please feel free to edit and update. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http

Re: [Puppet Users] Using --no-client option in puppet.conf

puppet run after restarting the daemon. - --client ==client=true - --no-client ==client=false http://docs.reductivelabs.com/references/stable/configuration.html Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling

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

rather than C/C++. To get good buy in from them then it's going to be hard if you write the tool in a lower level language. I look at the pool of cfengine and Nagios developers versus the pool of users as a (perhaps valid?) example. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System

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

the world has moved a LOT since 0.24.7. The 0.25.x releases have considerable performance uplift in them IMHO. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Continuous Integration - your help needed

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/02/10 11:28 AM, Aaron Lippold wrote: Hi James, My team at DISA and the Forge.mil project is looking to setup a Puppet/Hudson/Cobbler driven setup for our CI. I was hoping you may have some pointers you would be willing to share. Hi -

Re: [Puppet Users] Exec doesn't work with Ubuntu Server 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) 64bit

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/02/10 12:06 AM, kai.steverding wrote: I installed ruby on the above server and tried with a simple exec- test : What Puppet and Ruby versions? Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com

Re: [Puppet Users] Certificate BitRate

bits? I prefer 3072 or 4096, but if it's not an option maybe I should file a feature request. Joe Can you please log a feature request for it. I don't think it's rocket science to change but a) I've been wrong before and b) it'll need a little bit of testing. Cheers James Turnbull - -- Author

Re: [Puppet Users] Making the new users experience easier

http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions See the Troubleshooting and areas below. Please feel free to add to this! Thanks James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http

Re: [Puppet Users] puppetdlog configuration parameter broken?

else? Hmmm I think this is broken. Nor does masterlog either I think. I'll log some tickets. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com

Re: [Puppet Users] puppetdlog configuration parameter broken?

syslogfacility you don't get any log output to syslog at all? What are you setting it to? Any errors when run with --debug - --verbose --trace? Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http

Re: [Puppet Users] Making the new users experience easier

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 3/02/10 10:03 AM, Peter Meier wrote: * did I mention ssl? I think you did! +1 SSL although I wonder how this could be implemented? Time/NTP. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com

Re: [Puppet Users] Making the new users experience easier

On 3 February 2010 15:14, Scott Smith sc...@ohlol.net wrote: On 2/2/10 7:57 PM, James Turnbull wrote: The plan is to unify all the binaries (in fact I think the code is written and is planned for Rowlf) in the style of git so, $ puppet ca $ puppet master $ puppet client $ puppet doc etc

Re: [Puppet Users] Distributing Facts to client.

fileserver.conf to make sure the [plugins] mount is there but has NO path statement - something like: [plugins] allow *.lovedthanlost.net 4. Configure puppet.conf [main] pluginsync = true factpath = $vardir/lib/facter And that's it. Can you let me know how that goes? Regards James Turnbull

Re: [Puppet Users] Distributing Facts to client.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/02/10 8:46 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: I think this is the bit confusing people. The wiki makes it sound like the [plugins] mountpoint is optional, and you only need to worry about removing the path parameter if you already have a plugins

[Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: Puppet 0.25.4 available!

is raised * Bug #3112: Problem with adding and removing crons * Bug #3122: Uncharacterized failure in fileserving under OS X * Bug #3125: Dpkg tests failing * Feature #2914: Transactions should have before and after hooks Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration

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

. (Installation of these packages normally interacts with the user to ask for passwords, etc) See the responsefile attribute of the package type. http://docs.reductivelabs.com/references/stable/type.html#package Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com

Re: [Puppet Users] Where can I use generate() in additional to file/content?

that returns a value - you can use pretty much anywhere in your manifests that it makes sense - assuming you remember that functions only execute on the server. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http

[Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: Puppet 0.25.4 - Release Candidate 2 available!

using special parameter lose their title when changed * Bug #3001: Can't manage broken links * Bug #3039: 0.25.3 gem spec specifies the executables incorrectly * Bug #3075: sshkey host aliases broken by fix for #2813 * Feature #2914: Transactions should have before and after hooks Regards James

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Solaris / OpenSolaris package management

tests to the -dev list. Additional tests would help. Regards James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios) * Hardening Linux (http

Re: [Puppet Users] Installing only the puppet client

a complex solution? One problem I've observed is ruby will need to be installed in /local/company/ruby first, where I later rename it to ruby.1.8.7 with a symlink of ruby so that the installation is consistent with shebang paths. Yeah - complex. :) Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro

[Puppet Users] Solaris / OpenSolaris package management

SUNWgit) it works fine. Does anyone have any ideas? On a related note is pkgadd the recommended way to manage packages? Should a new/updated provider be developed that uses pkg? Thanks James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling

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