[Puppet Users] Release notes

2009-08-06 Thread James Turnbull
. 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 (http://tinyurl.com/hardeninglinux) signature.asc Descriptio

[Puppet Users] Re: 0.25.0rc1, modules, and custom types

2009-08-06 Thread James Turnbull
IK it's configured > correctly. But, it's just not working. > > Does anyone module custom types working in 0.25? I do. Can you provide some stack traces and your configuration? Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxad

[Puppet Users] Re: domainname versus hostname

2009-08-06 Thread James Turnbull
stname in puppet reflect the real hostname, or will it again > formulate its own by putting the NIS domain in it again? :) > He means the certname option - http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/ConfigurationReference Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administratio

[Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: 0.25.0 Release Candidate 1 is out!

2009-08-03 Thread James Turnbull
features - -- You can find a full list of the tickets closed thus far for version 0.25.0 is at: http://projects.reductivelabs.com/versions/show/3 Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet

[Puppet Users] Re: File resource type: critical chmod security issue

2009-07-28 Thread James Turnbull
nts to pony up some code and tests... 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 (http://tinyurl.com/hardeningl

[Puppet Users] Re: File resource type: critical chmod security issue

2009-07-27 Thread James Turnbull
w a few more up - I believe Mozilla has one. Generally speaking they define a few basics: 1. Who is accountable for security 2. What to do if you find a security issue and where to report security issues 3. How security patches are handled 4. The project's disclosure policy Regards James

[Puppet Users] Re: The Dependency Graph

2009-07-26 Thread James Turnbull
s behaviour - I > happen to think it is correct - but is there a way to output the > dependency graph? I'm not looking for anything fancy: a raw text output is > fine. > See http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/ConfigurationReference. The graph and graphdir options. Regar

[Puppet Users] Re: Resource ordering

2009-07-21 Thread James Turnbull
ources as non-fatal, >> but what resources would you mark this way? Could you mark an include or require as non-fatal? Would that achieve the same end? Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet

[Puppet Users] Re: Resource ordering

2009-07-21 Thread James Turnbull
t the right dependencies at a resource level but does provide more flexibility. This isn't the same as Chef - as Adam has pointed out Chef has top-down ordering rather than Puppet's dependency graph - but I think it'll make life easier for some people. Regards James Turnbull --

[Puppet Users] Re: patching config files

2009-07-21 Thread James Turnbull
ository of Puppet examples somewhere? > http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetModules I also have a book about Puppet - http://tinyurl.com/pupbook. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (h

[Puppet Users] Re: large file download, timeout?

2009-07-20 Thread James Turnbull
he 42M file, i > blinked and it was done. :) > > So until I can properly work out a good rpm/deb of 0.25, then this will > be my solution :) :) > Well you could try here: http://tmz.fedorapeople.org/repo/puppet/ And I am pretty sure someone on the list built .deb files

[Puppet Users] Re: Resource ordering

2009-07-20 Thread James Turnbull
ctions, plan them and understand sequencing and consequences (old school mainframe shop). I think that's a critical skill for a sysadmin and if Puppet forces people to do this when order matters... it's not a bad thing. Regards James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Adminis

[Puppet Users] Re: large file download, timeout?

2009-07-20 Thread James Turnbull
mple 0.25.0beta1. This increases the risk of a 0.25.0 beta gem being mistaken for production. If Gems allowed proper versioning then I'd create them. Regards James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://t

[Puppet Users] Re: large file download, timeout?

2009-07-19 Thread James Turnbull
0.24.8). http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/DownloadingPuppet 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 (htt

[Puppet Users] Re: Managing upgrading of puppet recipes

2009-07-07 Thread James Turnbull
ike this. I've never done this or written > ruby. An adventure, for sure! Feel free to post your function or any code queries to the puppet-dev list. The people there may be able to assist or provide feedback and ideas. Regards James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems A

[Puppet Users] Re: An idea for automatic koha installation

2009-07-07 Thread James Turnbull
bining a number of the existing modules it would be easy to build something for koha and then customise further for your needs. Regards James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro

[Puppet Users] Re: Dangerous Virus

2009-07-06 Thread James Turnbull
Swati Tiwari wrote: > *HUGE VIRUS COMING ! PLEASE READ & FORWARD !* > This is a hoax and a beat-up - please read the actual Snopes site: http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/postcard.asp In future we'll treat such messages as spam and ban you from the Puppet mailing list.

[Puppet Users] Re: Workstations and Certs

2009-07-03 Thread James Turnbull
'm > not that versed in PHP to hash a script out from scratch. Does anyone > have a rough outline that we could steal? > Also be great if this discussion and any resulting configuration or code could end up on the wiki somewhere too... Regards James Turnbull -- Author

[Puppet Users] Re: Forcing puppetd ask puppemasterd for new changes

2009-07-01 Thread James Turnbull
; installations) > > Could you please tell me which config option is responsible for that? - --runinterval See http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/ConfigurationReference. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin

[Puppet Users] Re: autosign.conf documented?

2009-06-26 Thread James Turnbull
abs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/CertificatesAndSecurity http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/WhyAutosignIsDangerous Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios

[Puppet Users] Re: Server Hierarchies Part Two (Puppet's Revenge)

2009-06-25 Thread James Turnbull
pes. So you could try > Thanks! :) There's also some discussion at: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/CommonMisconceptions Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl

[Puppet Users] Re: puppet dns CNAME

2009-06-24 Thread James Turnbull
rs out there, > if this is still not configurable, it would be a nice-to-have. > puppetd --server puppetus.company.com Or in puppet.conf. See http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/ConfigurationReference Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (h

[Puppet Users] Re: LDAPNodes slow

2009-06-24 Thread James Turnbull
S H wrote: > > Has anybody else experienced this issue? Is there a particular reason > ruby/ldap was chosen over net/ldap? > Is net/ldap still maintained or developed? Even so I think it's because the ruby-ldap client is packaged for a variety of operating systems whilst I don't believe net/lda

[Puppet Users] Re: ANNOUNCE: 0.25.0beta2 release!

2009-06-23 Thread James Turnbull
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Plaksin wrote: > James Turnbull writes: > >> This is the beta2 release of Puppet 0.25.0. > > Cool! Thanks! > > It's working well so far on our fileserver. We're even using > Passenger. Yay! >

[Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: 0.25.0beta2 release!

2009-06-22 Thread James Turnbull
t of the tickets closed thus far for version 0.25.0 is at: http://projects.reductivelabs.com/versions/show/3 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) *

[Puppet Users] Re: Getting started with puppet

2009-06-17 Thread James Turnbull
rac/puppet/wiki/DocumentationStart There are some tutorials cited on that page too (in the Additional Documentation section from memory). The next release, 0.25.0, will have Windows support for some simple stuff initially. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administra

[Puppet Users] Re: trying to understand puppet internal

2009-06-15 Thread James Turnbull
ery Puppet executable (generally) accepts all configuration options but some are obviously not appropriate. For particular executables we try to document key options in the man page or --help output but not every possible option. If you think one or other option SHOULD be documented in there please f

[Puppet Users] Tickets and the Puppet community user

2009-06-12 Thread James Turnbull
ectly assigned to someone should be unassigned rather than having the overhead of being assigned to another user. Please feel free to email me if you have any specific questions. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling

[Puppet Users] Re: Do you manage your /etc/hosts via puppet

2009-06-12 Thread James Turnbull
nteresting to know. > I use the native type: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/TypeReference#host Sometimes combined with: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/ExportedResources Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://tinyurl.com/

[Puppet Users] Re: trying to understand puppet internal

2009-06-12 Thread James Turnbull
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aurelien Degremont wrote: > Arnau Bria a écrit : >> Hi all, >> >> More test >> > > If your doing benchmarking with puppet > try: > > # puppetd -t --summarize > Also puppet-test in the ext dire

[Puppet Users] Re: trying to understand puppet internal

2009-06-12 Thread James Turnbull
implement an rsync in same puppet server and do a >> rsync Exec... > > Can't you have puppet:/// servers separate to the catalogue server? Would > that > help? Yes - see http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetScalability Regards James Turnbull - -- A

[Puppet Users] Re: trying to understand puppet internal

2009-06-12 Thread James Turnbull
pet (0.24.8 or even the 0.25 beta). > I'm on 0.24.8. > Give the 0.25.0beta1 a try (or HEAD). 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://tin

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet Camp Oct 1-2 at SFSU

2009-06-11 Thread James Turnbull
n their ten cents of approach and design. Woot! Bring on the merge fest! 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) * Hard

[Puppet Users] Re: Controlling the order of execution of puppet code?

2009-06-11 Thread James Turnbull
Rene wrote: > Does anybody know the status of that patch? > It's pushed and will be in 0.25.0. The next 0.25.0 release will be beta2 but I haven't got a date yet. Regards James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pull

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet Camp Oct 1-2 at SFSU

2009-06-10 Thread James Turnbull
e someone do a whole spiel on how they use Puppet in the "cloud" - EC2 especially. > 2) Success/failures on scaling puppet out to n clients +1 > 3) How it's been incorporated in to development, operations, and > infrastructure environments +1. Regards James T

[Puppet Users] Re: how do I submit a patch?

2009-06-09 Thread James Turnbull
se is to log a ticket at: http://projects.reductivelabs.com/projects/facter (You'll need to create an account) And attach your patch as a unified diff. We also appreciate patches being send to the puppet-dev list for discussion. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Sy

[Puppet Users] Re: HOT SEXY COLLEGE GIRLS VIDEOS

2009-06-08 Thread James Turnbull
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robin Sheat wrote: > On Monday 08 June 2009 23:34:15 James Turnbull wrote: >> It's called Spam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(electronic) and it >> slipped through the Google filters obviously. > > So, it's not a

[Puppet Users] Re: HOT SEXY COLLEGE GIRLS VIDEOS

2009-06-08 Thread James Turnbull
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Subhasis Dasgupta wrote: > what is this ? > It's called Spam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(electronic) and it slipped through the Google filters obviously. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administr

[Puppet Users] Re: Specifying nodes by type

2009-06-07 Thread James Turnbull
;s feasible to move this up? Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219122/) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590599780/) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590596099/) * Hard

[Puppet Users] Re: Specifying nodes by type

2009-06-06 Thread James Turnbull
James Turnbull wrote: > Brad wrote: >> On Jun 5, 12:39 am, James Turnbull wrote: >>> But yes it was a little confusing. I've edited the page to make it >>> easier to understand. Please let me know if that has helped. >> Thanks but it still didn'

[Puppet Users] Re: Specifying nodes by type

2009-06-06 Thread James Turnbull
Brad wrote: > On Jun 5, 12:39 am, James Turnbull wrote: >> But yes it was a little confusing. I've edited the page to make it >> easier to understand. Please let me know if that has helped. > > Thanks but it still didn't seem very clear to me. Might as well jus

[Puppet Users] Re: Specifying nodes by type

2009-06-05 Thread James Turnbull
e know if that has helped. The wiki is also open to be edited. Please feel free to create a login and update the documentation if you would prefer. Regards James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet

[Puppet Users] Re: Specifying nodes by type

2009-06-04 Thread James Turnbull
uot;type" on the puppetd command-line. In large server > farms it seems like it would be a really common need to specify nodes > by purpose rather than machine name. What about tags? http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/UsingTags Also Facter 1.5.5+ has some dedicated EC2 facts m

[Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: Facter 1.5.6 released!

2009-06-04 Thread James Turnbull
://projects.reductivelabs.com/projects/facter/changelog#1.5.6): 1.5.6: Bug #2303: Add executable facter in spec Bug #2307: undefined local variable or method `zone' Regards James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet

[Puppet Users] Re: Vote for your favorite ticket

2009-06-03 Thread James Turnbull
7;ve included a >>> screenshot of what you should see. >> attached a screenshot. > > That's exactly what I see. No arrows. > Hi all This is now fixed. Can people confirm they can see arrows. Thanks James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administrati

[Puppet Users] Re: Could not retrieve catalog: Could not find node

2009-06-03 Thread James Turnbull
why this is happening. > > No problem with resolving. The puppetmaster is saying this: > > Could not call: Could not find node 'blah'; cannot compile > > Any clues on how to debug. > Version? Platform? More log data (--debug --trace --verbose)? Regar

[Puppet Users] Re: Vote for your favorite ticket

2009-06-03 Thread James Turnbull
Trevor Hemsley wrote: > Not me. Logged in as TrevorHemsley > Trevor (and Peter and others) Can you clear your browser cache and try now please? Thanks James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet

[Puppet Users] Re: Vote for your favorite ticket

2009-06-02 Thread James Turnbull
ch+...@zeha.at wrote: > On Jun 2, 12:09 am, Luke Kanies wrote: >> James Turnbull has enabled a new plugin in Redmine that allows you to >> vote for tickets. You have to have a login, and you can vote a ticket >> up or down. >> [..] >> To vote on a ticket,

[Puppet Users] Re: You should be using schedules :)

2009-06-01 Thread James Turnbull
tivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/TypeReference#id275 Regards James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219122/) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590599780/) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/produc

[Puppet Users] Re: Blastwave packages not detected

2009-05-30 Thread James Turnbull
;m not sure if this is a regression in pkg-get, or an intentional > change in its behaviour (in which case, I suppose the blastwave > provider will have to adapt to fit). I will try and find out a bit > more... Chris Can you please log a ticket for this if it turns out to a regression/feature

[Puppet Users] Re: wiki problems

2009-05-29 Thread James Turnbull
esponsive. >> We are working to migrate the Trac wiki but due to Teyo's jet-setting lifestyle and my need to work so I can eat it's a slow process. I think we're almost there though and if we can fiddle with the migration process a little in the next few weeks it should

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet as a pki

2009-05-29 Thread James Turnbull
types: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/TypeReference#ssh-authorized-key http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/TypeReference#sshkey Regards James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219122/) * Pulling Strings with Puppet

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppetshow defunct?

2009-05-29 Thread James Turnbull
some work has been done I think. Andrew/Luke/Teyo - Any chance of an update on consoles/management terminals/thought-powered remote control systems powered by room-temperature superconductors? Regards James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://www.amazon.com/gp

[Puppet Users] Extras .... denizens of the Puppet ext directory

2009-05-28 Thread James Turnbull
abase puppet-test - A script to measure Puppet client performance rack - A Puppet module for configuring Puppet with Passenger/Rack/mod_rails vim - Syntax highlighting and manifest editing support for Vim P.S. These are offered without warranty and we make no guarantees that they all work. Regard

[Puppet Users] Re: Controlling the order of execution of puppet code?

2009-05-28 Thread James Turnbull
to go re-read myself. As long as we provide both functions - include and a stronger require - I think this is an easy +1. Regards James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219122/) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://www.

[Puppet Users] Re: Why can't I use Puppet for Windows ?

2009-05-28 Thread James Turnbull
beta release for 0.25.0. You can see the latest code at: http://github.com/finalprefix/puppet/tree/win Regards James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219122/) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/15905

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppetshow defunct?

2009-05-27 Thread James Turnbull
ge link btw James. > I know I pinged Blake about it. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219122/) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590599780/) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://www.amazo

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppetshow defunct?

2009-05-27 Thread James Turnbull
gt; > http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppetshow > > If puppetshow is defunct, what are people using as a visual interface > into stored logs instead? I know I can get RRD files easily, but I'm > looking for answers to questions like Sheldon The code is at: http://github.com/

[Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: Facter 1.5.5 released!

2009-05-22 Thread James Turnbull
oductversion_major fact Fixed #2003 - Added is_virtual fact Fixed #2035 - Missing brace for OSX preflight Added EC2 facts Fixed #2032 - file.open hanging on /proc/uptime on some platform Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://www.ama

[Puppet Users] Re: Documentation for Ruby's %x{foo}

2009-05-20 Thread James Turnbull
pasadenarb.com/2007/03/ruby-shell-commands.html is a good start as well as http://blog.dalethatcher.com/2008/05/ruby-debugging-backticks.html and http://clockobj.co.uk/2007/10/07/tip-running-command-line-shell-commands-in-ruby-using-x/ Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration

[Puppet Users] Re: RESOLVED Re: Struggling to understand classes, nodes, and case statements

2009-05-20 Thread James Turnbull
gt; That shouldn't be the case. Can you show us your full manifest? It's hard to trouble-shoot if we only see part of the manifest. Thanks James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219122/) * Pulling Strings with Pu

[Puppet Users] Re: facter lsbdistid returns no result

2009-05-19 Thread James Turnbull
. Regards James Turnbull http://www.james-turnbull.com On 20/05/2009, at 6:59 AM, kymas wrote: > > Yes, redhat-lsb-3.1-12.3.EL is installed. > > On May 19, 3:55 pm, Jason Rojas wrote: >> is the redhat-lsb rpm installed? >> >> On May 19, 2009, at 1:48 PM, kymas wro

[Puppet Users] OpenSourceBridge - Configuration Management Panel

2009-05-19 Thread James Turnbull
of bcfg2 - - Igal Koshevoy of AutomateIt You can see more details at: http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/49 I hope that people will be able to attend what will be an interesting and thought-provoking session. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http

[Puppet Users] Re: [Puppet-dev] Re: Facter 1.5.5rc2 released!

2009-05-19 Thread James Turnbull
27;t think the tests fitted into the release tarball. Again - happy to be argued with/swayed on this. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219122/) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590599780/) * P

[Puppet Users] Facter 1.5.5rc2 released!

2009-05-18 Thread James Turnbull
me platform Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219122/) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590599780/) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590596099/) * Hardening Linux (http

[Puppet Users] Re: how do I dictate order?

2009-05-15 Thread James Turnbull
Also I believe there is a Splunk module for Puppet that was developed already. Perhaps Google might turn it up as an example of how to do this. I seem to remember a tweet about it too. Regards James Turnbull On 15/05/2009, at 2:00 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Jeremy Hansen

[Puppet Users] Re: logging to a file

2009-05-11 Thread James Turnbull
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 neerolyte wrote: > Is it possible to completely disable logging to syslog and only log to > a file? Have a look at the http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/ConfigurationReference page and the various log options. Regards James Tu

[Puppet Users] Re: remove a yum repository

2009-05-07 Thread James Turnbull
> Do I have to create a file type poitning to that repo and then set it > to absent? Set the enabled attribute to absent. enabled => absent It's in the Type Reference. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/

[Puppet Users] Re: Conditionally install a file resource

2009-05-05 Thread James Turnbull
east the technical merits > can be hammered out. > http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/651 Regards James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219122/) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590599780/

[Puppet Users] Re: [Puppet-dev] ANNOUNCE: 0.25.0beta1 release!

2009-05-04 Thread James Turnbull
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Nasrat wrote: > 2009/5/4 James Turnbull : >> >> This is the beta1 release of Puppet 0.25.0. >> >> It is available at: >> >> http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-0.25.0beta1.tar.gz > > Not

[Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: 0.25.0beta1 release!

2009-05-03 Thread James Turnbull
alled versioncmp Other features -- You can find a full list of the tickets closed thus far for version 0.25.0 is at: http://projects.reductivelabs.com/versions/show/3 Regards James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590599780/) * Pro N

[Puppet Users] Re: Assign variable with content of a file?

2009-05-01 Thread James Turnbull
ate function to populate a variable value. http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/FunctionReference#generate Otherwise you should use a fact. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219122/) * Pulling Strings with Puppe

[Puppet Users] Re: uninitialized constant Facter::IPAddress (NameError)

2009-04-24 Thread James Turnbull
rade... Depends on HOW you upgrade. If you install from source (install.rb) then no old files are removed. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219122/) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159059

[Puppet Users] Re: ANNOUNCE: Facter 1.5.5rc1

2009-04-21 Thread James Turnbull
nu Fixed #2021 - Returning boolean not always possible to the list of fixes. This slipped through the CHANGELOG. Regards James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219122/) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://www.amazon.com/g

[Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: Facter 1.5.5rc1

2009-04-21 Thread James Turnbull
acter-1.5.5rc1.tgz Can we ask as many people as possible to please test the release and the fixes. Please log any bugs to Redmine (http://projects.reductivelabs.com) Thanks James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219122/) * Pu

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet Camp

2009-04-19 Thread James Turnbull
e things. Happy to do any of that pre-work that can be done remotely. Also happy to lead some discussions/help out/mutter drunkenly/etc. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219122/) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http:

[Puppet Users] Re: Nagios resources create files unreadable by Nagios

2009-04-13 Thread James Turnbull
Have you logged a bug for this then? Regards James Turnbull On 13/04/2009, at 10:38 PM, Scott wrote: > > Graham, I've asked about this exact issue and never got a real > response. It doesn't make any sense at all for these files to be mode > 600 but the only way aroun

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet and pushing changes

2009-04-10 Thread James Turnbull
+1 to Paul's comments. I like having the daemon and if you really want it the cron option is easy to configure. I'm intending to show both in the 2nd edition of the Puppet book. Regards James Turnbull On 10/04/2009, at 11:43 AM, Paul Lathrop wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 9,

[Puppet Users] Re: Support Expectations (was: Licensing and Copyright)

2009-04-09 Thread James Turnbull
drinks too. Regards James Turnbull On 09/04/2009, at 8:02 PM, Matt wrote: > > > 2009/4/9 Gary Law > Good product documentation. > Access to good consultancy or training support if required (and I'd > expect to pay extra for that); > Gary > > > -- > Gary L

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet and pushing changes

2009-04-08 Thread James Turnbull
If you log a ticket I am happy to add this into the contrib directory. Regards James Turnbull On 08/04/2009, at 6:00 PM, Larry Ludwig wrote: > > On Apr 7, 2009, at 11:15 PM, Ohad Levy wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Larry Ludwig >> wr

[Puppet Users] Re: Licensing and Copyright

2009-04-06 Thread James Turnbull
imit the potential contributions to the community - including mine. I also think a lot of casual bug/patch submitters won't bother if they have to sign an agreement - especially if, like me, it requires dealing with corporate legal people. I suspect that some of the "paid" corporate c

Re: [Puppet-dev] Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet 0.24.8 tarball broken.

2009-04-01 Thread James Turnbull
Nigel Kersten wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:28 PM, James Turnbull > wrote: >> Nigel Kersten wrote: >>> http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet.0.24.8.tgz >>> >>> 0 bytes. >> Maybe I am late to the party but the right URL is: >>

[Puppet Users] Re: certificate signing error on debian

2009-04-01 Thread James Turnbull
--genconfig" ? Whilst I am not preseed best friend I don't see how this is possible. Why would preseed do installation any differently? d-i pkgsel/include should use Debian standard package tool - in this case aptitude - to install. Regards James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pro

[Puppet Users] Re: certificate signing error on debian

2009-04-01 Thread James Turnbull
t puppetd[19020]: Could not request >> certificate: Certificate retrieval failed: Certificate request does not >> match existing certificate; run 'puppetca --clean debian_client_host'. >> Have you tried the certname option? Regards James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pro

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

2009-04-01 Thread James Turnbull
me. :) All you need to do is create an account and hack away. There is already a PuppetDebian page I believe. Regards James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219122/) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://www.amazon.com/gp/produc

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet 0.24.8 tarball broken.

2009-04-01 Thread James Turnbull
Nigel Kersten wrote: > http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet.0.24.8.tgz > > 0 bytes. Maybe I am late to the party but the right URL is: http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-0.24.8.tgz Regards James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administrat

[Puppet Users] Re: A simple function to load external class attributes

2009-03-31 Thread James Turnbull
g, and > then they want that attribute class to be merged into all or some of > the classes in the module. (Teyo has especially been pushing me to > solve this problem.) > A big plus plus +1 from me. I'd love to see this - though probably in a module-by-module basis rathe

[Puppet Users] Re: Installing 0.24.8 as gem (or deb?) on Debian

2009-03-29 Thread James Turnbull
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:02:24 -0700, Nigel Kersten wrote: > Backports of server products to the last LTS release in Ubuntu should > be something we can get done and I'm keen to push on trying to get > that going. Nigel Happy to help too.

[Puppet Users] Re: Can anyone else suggest things to do WRT bug 2041?

2009-03-24 Thread James Turnbull
Robin I presume you've read: http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/2102 Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590599780/) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590596099/) * Hardening Linux (http://www.am

[Puppet Users] Re: 'if' syntax

2009-03-24 Thread James Turnbull
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Keith Edmunds wrote: >> Please let me know if this update makes more sense: > > It does, and thank you for updating the page. > > I think it would be further improved by defining what an "in-statement" > and an "around statement" are - the latter,

[Puppet Users] Re: ANNOUNCE: Puppet 0.24.8 now available!

2009-03-23 Thread James Turnbull
ere is no functional change except a permissions typo on my behalf in the installer. This is entirely my fault. My apologies to anyone who built last night. Regards James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219122/) * Pulling Strin

[Puppet Users] Re: 'if' syntax

2009-03-23 Thread James Turnbull
his update makes more sense: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/LanguageTutorial#conditionals Thanks James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590599780/) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590596099/) * Hardening Linu

[Puppet Users] Re: 'if' syntax

2009-03-23 Thread James Turnbull
#x27;''' We call the in-statement conditionals ``selectors``, as they are essentially a select-style operator, which support the use of ``default`` to specify a default value::" But I concur - that's not overly clear if you don't know what in-statement means. Regards J

[Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: Puppet 0.24.8 now available!

2009-03-23 Thread James Turnbull
objects Fixing #1912 - gid still works with no 'should' value fixing ralsh issues Fixed #1920 - Shadow password corruption Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590599780/) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://www.ama

[Puppet Users] Re: 'if' syntax

2009-03-23 Thread James Turnbull
error at 'if'; expected '}' at ... > > Is this a reasonable way of excluding one file from certain hosts? Also, I > clearly do not understand the syntax for 'if' (and it's very hard to > Google "puppet if statement"), so what am I doing inc

[Puppet Users] Re: service NTPd restart isn't manage automatically (CentOS)

2009-03-23 Thread James Turnbull
gt; running, > } > } Read the http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/TypeReference#service You've misunderstood the options. Have a look at the restart attribute (which should be the command used to restart) and hasrestart which specifies whether the service supports restart

[Puppet Users] Re: Module dependancies.

2009-03-19 Thread James Turnbull
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/3/09 James Turnbull wrote: > Have a resource in one module depend on on a class in the module. > There > isn't a way of directly making on module dependent on another module. > > There was a long thread of this last wee

[Puppet Users] Re: Module dependancies.

2009-03-19 Thread James Turnbull
ource in one module depend on on a class in the module. There isn't a way of directly making on module dependent on another module. There was a long thread of this last week or the week before that might have food for thought. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pulling Strings with Pup

[Puppet Users] Re: strange log messages...

2009-03-17 Thread James Turnbull
> If you mean the patch at > http://github.com/nigelkersten/puppetmaster/commit/65ce150b04e46cfb572d9d2682bf5d9a3b37da68 > which is referred to at http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/show/1551 > then its a broken link :( But not here it isn't - a little further down in the ticket: http:/

[Puppet Users] Re: module dependencies

2009-03-13 Thread James Turnbull
that I'd like to make > class X depend on class Y. > I'm coming late to this but: require => Class[Y] Works fine for me. Regards James Turnbull -- Author of: * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590599780/) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://www.

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