[Puppet Users] using $environment yaml file with pre loaded modules

2014-01-13 Thread Simon
--- :backends: - yaml :hierarchy: - "%{environment}/hosts/%{fqdn}" - "%{environment}/groups/%{group}" - "%{environment}/%{environment}" - global :yaml: :datadir: /etc/puppet/hieradata has anyone faced anything similar or have any suggestions thanks simon --

[Puppet Users] Re: using $environment yaml file with pre loaded modules

2014-01-13 Thread Simon
I found that puppet does not like - "%{environment}/%{environment}" if i set a variable ENV to the same and have - "%{environment}/%{ENV}" it works On Monday, January 13, 2014 2:24:59 PM UTC, Simon wrote: > > hi, > > I have a strange problem that I cant

[Puppet Users] Ordering in each_pair

2014-02-10 Thread Simon
t they come out in a random order so nearly every puppet run could cause a change and restart a service # this is a variable comment variable1 = 100 # this is a variable comment variable2 = 200 # this is a variable comment variable3 = 300 any ideas cheers Simon -- You received this message beca

[Puppet Users] Re: Ordering in each_pair

2014-02-10 Thread Simon
['comment'] %> <%= varname %> = <%= hash['value'] %> <% end -%> I was sure that i tried sort.each do and had no success but on trying it again with your code it works fine. thanks for your help Simon On Monday, February 10, 2014 2:30:37 PM UTC, jcbollinger wrote: &

[Puppet Users] how to escape %{ in hiera

2016-06-06 Thread Simon
Hi all does anyone know how i can escape %{ in hiera without it trying to convert to variable? i want to add the following to configure a syslog filter for logstash match => { "message" => "<%{POSINT:syslog_pri}>%{SYSLOGTIMESTAMP:syslog_timestamp} %{SYSLOGHOST:syslog_hostname} %{DATA:syslog_

Re: [Puppet Users] how to escape %{ in hiera

2016-06-06 Thread Simon
Hi Rob, That worked perfectly thanks!! On Monday, June 6, 2016 at 3:28:24 PM UTC+1, Rob Nelson wrote: > > Literal works when there is only one literal percent sign; last I checked, > you cannot use it twice in the same value. You can use "%%{::}{::hostname}" > to return "%{::hostname}" - the

[Puppet Users] Puppet Certificate problems, solved

2011-09-12 Thread Simon Bazley
hat ip to the certdnsname parameter. Hopefully this will save someone the time I spent working it out. Simon -- 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 unsubscr

[Puppet Users] Adding already defined users to a group when its created

2011-10-25 Thread Simon Bazley
I saw a thread on puppet users with the subject 'Adding already defined users to a group when its created' which suggests that the only way to add a user to more groups, when extra classes are included which require it, is to have the user definition change depending on which classes are defined.

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: puppetlabs firewall module

2011-12-27 Thread Simon KP
Your iptables rules are wrong, that is why you lose SSH connection. I'd look into those before worrying about Puppet. On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Jure Pečar wrote: > On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 04:32:03 -0800 (PST) > bel wrote: > > > You could use stages as described in documentation: > > > > http

Re: [Puppet Users] RFC: Make file content specification methods consistent.

2010-10-31 Thread Simon Deziel
On 10/30/2010 11:45 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5158 > > --- Ticket description --- > > We have four main ways we can specify file content in a file resource. > > > The source parameter > The content parameter > The file funct

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet on ubuntu 10.04

2010-12-23 Thread Simon Deziel
pad.net/~mathiaz/+archive/puppet-backports It currently includes puppet 2.6.3. Simon -- 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,

[Puppet Users] ssh_authorized_key creating multiple entries on repeated runs

2010-02-09 Thread Simon Chiu
ot;someuser" } It keeps appending to /home/someuser/.ssh/authorized_keys Is this the best way to manage 1 or 2 "admin" type of users in the system? Thanks Simon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this

[Puppet Users] Re: ssh_authorized_key creating multiple entries on repeated runs

2010-02-10 Thread Simon Chiu
Thanks for the reply guys. Really appreciate it! For the key param I am using just the key itself without the "ssh-rsa" prefix part in the key. I am using 0.25.4 (gem version of puppet). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post

[Puppet Users] Re: Upgraded puppet-server from EPEL 24.8 to 25.1 - now seeing "puppetmasterd[xxxx]: Too many connections"

2010-03-09 Thread Simon Mügge
igs.. :/ Any help is greatly appreciated! Cheers, Simon On 8 Mrz., 02:47, Ohad Levy wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Are you using storeconfigs? I've seen the too many connections error in > relationship to activerecord versions (and the lack of mysql gem existence). > > In ge

[Puppet Users] Re: Upgraded puppet-server from EPEL 24.8 to 25.1 - now seeing "puppetmasterd[xxxx]: Too many connections"

2010-03-10 Thread Simon Mügge
0.0) Aaand the debianpackages: libmysql-ruby1.8 libmysqlclient15-dev That did it, it works, Im happy - thanks a lot! :) Cheers, Simon On 10 Mrz., 06:43, Ohad Levy wrote: > which version of activerecord is installed? you might want to give 2.3 a try > and see if that solves your problems. >

[Puppet Users] dynamic parameters in defines - HowTo?

2010-03-16 Thread Simon Mügge
uot;, realnameA_ip => ["2.3.4.5", "3.4.5.6"], } } But puppet does NOT seem to like this construct "${${instancename} _ip}" (and I cant really blame it..) - does anyone have a hint as to how to do this? Cheers, Simon -- You received this mess

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

2010-05-26 Thread Simon Josi
I would be much interested in this code as well. Kid regards, Simon On 05/22/2010 06:03 PM, Trevor Vaughan wrote: > Well, it turns out that 0.25 completely broke my code (no big surprise). > > I was using the 'classes' method off of the parser, but I'll have to > re

[Puppet Users] Having issues getting environments working.

2008-12-10 Thread Simon Coggins
The closest thing I came to was http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/ticket/1183 which seems to be the opposite of my problem, configprint works, but running it normally doesn't. Regards Simon --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

[Puppet Users] Re: Having issues getting environments working.

2008-12-10 Thread Simon Coggins
nment. Shame the environment stuff showed promise. Thanks for your help! --- Simon Coggins Senior Systems Engineer System Services CQUniversity, Bruce HWY Rockhampton, QLD, 4701, Australia Phone: 07 49232778 Mobile: 0408115861 Fax: 07 49309254 On 11/12/2008, at 12:29, "Paul Lathrop" &l

[Puppet Users] File contents into a variable (once it exists)

2009-05-18 Thread Simon Kuhn
zed_keys (which serves no purpose, but it's the same format and that file will always exist) and the second execution does the right thing. But it's pretty gross, and it means users will take a longer time than necessary to fully propagate. Is there some method that I'm overlo

[Puppet Users] File contents into a variable (once it exists)

2009-05-18 Thread Simon Kuhn
lly to be created (versus when it is to be parsed), there's no alternative. -- Simon --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

[Puppet Users] The security of serving files?

2009-08-09 Thread Simon Strange
tca --sign" process can view/pull files? I did read the page on file security here, but it wasn't definitive for me: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/FileServingConfiguration Simon -- --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you a

[Puppet Users] Re: Managing filesystem quotas

2009-10-29 Thread Simon Josi
t modern kernels anymore, because much of the quota-internals have changed since then. The module already implements editing fstab with augeas though. /simon [1] http://puppet.git.puzzle.ch/?p=module-quota.git [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/ruby-quota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Puppet Users] Blocking or gating service restarts?

2012-01-26 Thread Simon McCartney
estart - still needs a hook in the service resource type right? -- Simon McCartney E: si...@mccartney.ie M: +44 7710 836 915 -- 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@googlegrou

Re: [Puppet Users] Static Puppet Binary

2012-01-26 Thread Simon McCartney
e. We also do a few other steps that trip us up (clock drift being one for certs, so ntpd is configured & time pulled from a known good source etc). I can sanitize & post this if you want. Simon. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pu

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Blocking or gating service restarts?

2012-01-26 Thread Simon McCartney
o restart, blocking the puppet run until it gets an answer, the user defined script then does what ever comms required to see if C&C are ok with the OOS/restart. (we do rolling deploys by allowing up to X% of machines in a given service to go OOS for deployments) Simon. -- Simon McCartney E: si...@

[Puppet Users] PuppetCamp Dublin, 6th July 2012

2012-06-29 Thread Simon McCartney
come share & learn! http://puppetcampdublin.eventbrite.com/ http://lanyrd.com/2012/puppet-camp-dublin/ *Engineers Ireland* 22 Clyde Road Ballsbridge Dublin Ireland Friday, July 6, 2012 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM -- Simon McCartney E: si...@mccartney.ie M: +44 7710 836 915 -- You received

[Puppet Users] PuppetCamp Dublin this Friday 6th July 2012

2012-07-03 Thread Simon McCartney
http://puppetcampdublin.eventbrite.com/ http://lanyrd.com/2012/puppet-camp-dublin/ PuppetCamp Dublin, in conjunction with Engineers Ireland Computing Division: Puppet Camp is a community oriented gathering of Puppet users and developers. You’ll have the opportunity to network with a diverse gr

[Puppet Users] rspec-puppet testing with puppet $::settings

2013-04-29 Thread Simon Piette
Hi all, Let's say I have this in a manifest: file { "${::settings::vardir}/files": ensure => directory } And I want to test it in the catalog using: it { should create_file('/var/lib/puppet/files') } It won't work because an mktemp directory is made for vardir for each catalogue. The catalog

Re: [Puppet Users] rspec-puppet testing with puppet $::settings

2013-04-30 Thread Simon Piette
Hi Wolfe, On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Wolf Noble wrote: > Hi Simon, > On Apr 29, 2013, at 7:45 PM, Simon Piette > wrote: > > What I've done elsewhere is to make a parameter for, in your case, vardir: > > > (untested, but close) > > Class foo($va

Re: [Puppet Users] rspec-puppet testing with puppet $::settings

2013-05-02 Thread Simon Piette
on't like the idea of changing a manifest to get around a limitation of the testing framework. Thanks for your feedback, Simon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails f

[Puppet Users] Re: Node definition from file (heterogeneous hostnames)

2013-05-09 Thread Simon Flash
site.pp done What do you other guys think of this solution? To risky to edit /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp with a script? Yours, Simon Den torsdagen den 9:e maj 2013 kl. 09:06:23 UTC+2 skrev Robin Jonsson: > > bump -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Go

[Puppet Users] Puppet run on node even when not specified in site.pp

2013-05-15 Thread Simon Flash
re, is it cached somehow after that? If so, can I disable it? Any disadvantage of disabling? Or why is linuxnod11.rosi.local also run it? Thanks in advance, Simon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this grou

[Puppet Users] "Future" parser and "return value" of resource definition

2013-05-24 Thread Simon Marechal
A simple example : file { '/tmp/out': content => [1,2,3,8].each |$v| { file { "/tmp/$v": content => $v; } } } Should it be valid to use "each" here ? If it is, what is the expected behavior (in my test the content of /tmp/ou

[Puppet Users] Re: "Future" parser and "return value" of resource definition

2013-05-25 Thread Simon Marechal
Also, this is accepted : collect([1,2,3]) |$x| { file { "/tmp/b$x": content => collect([1,2,3]) |$y| { $y }; } } and this isn't : collect([1,2,3]) |$x| { file { "/tmp/b$x": con

[Puppet Users] Re: "Future" parser and "return value" of resource definition

2013-05-26 Thread Simon Marechal
On Saturday, May 25, 2013 9:53:37 AM UTC+2, Simon Marechal wrote: > > It also seems that "collect" isn't too useful compared to "each" : > * you can use collect everywhere you would use collect > * "each" seems to return the original collection unch

[Puppet Users] Variables and autoloading

2012-10-15 Thread Simon Marechal
It seems to me that a few puppet modules do access variables from non-included classes (for example https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-mysql/blob/master/manifests/config.pp look at how stuff is pulled out of mysql::params). I do not understand how this is supposed to work. What happens i

[Puppet Users] hspuppetmaster release

2012-12-20 Thread Simon Marechal
I just released a very alpha version of the software : http://lpuppet.banquise.net/blog/2012/12/20/hspuppetmaster-alpha-release/ It should become a full replacement for the current Puppet master, but with much better performance characteristics and ease of deployment. It is also not Puppet-perf

[Puppet Users] looping over an hashmap in an .pp file

2013-08-09 Thread Simon Hönscheid
_user[user]} WITH ${database_user[userpermissions]} PASSWORD '${database_user[password]}';\"| psql": onlyif => "test `echo \"\\dg\" | psql| grep ${database_user[user]}|wc -l` -eq 0" } thanks simon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: [Puppet Users] looping over an hashmap in an .pp file

2013-08-09 Thread Simon Hönscheid
thanks, that looks great! does that work with 2.7.x with storedconfigs but without hiera backend? Am Freitag, 9. August 2013 18:10:42 UTC+2 schrieb Sergey Arlashin: > > Hi Simon, > You can use create_resources > http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/function.html#cre

[Puppet Users] Nicer Lookup

2013-09-04 Thread Simon Hönscheid
], }, 'bar2' => { 'a' => [ '1', '2', '3 '4', ], 'b' => [

[Puppet Users] Re: Nicer Lookup

2013-09-05 Thread Simon Hönscheid
Am Donnerstag, 5. September 2013 15:16:59 UTC+2 schrieb jcbollinger: > > > > On Wednesday, September 4, 2013 4:18:01 PM UTC-5, Simon Hönscheid wrote: >> >> Hi List, >> >> I have a hashmap/array construct where i want to lookup data. my current >>

[Puppet Users] Re: Could not request certificate: Error 405 on SERVER

2013-09-19 Thread Simon Y
exactly how to fix this "properly" (i.e. configuring SELinux to allow Apache to load the file), but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader :-) Hope it helps! Simon. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" grou

Re: [Puppet Users] Odd (fatal) error noted in logs

2013-10-01 Thread Simon Oakes
you run, the problem goes away (see below). [simon@ns2(~)> sudo puppet agent --test [sudo] password for simon: Info: Retrieving plugin Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/memorysize_raw.rb Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/augeasversion.rb Info: Loading facts in /

[Puppet Users] Dynamic Environments, r10k, gitolite and Non-environment Puppet Config

2013-11-01 Thread Simon Young
simple matter of moving the confdir somewhere else, or is allowing puppet to manage its own config simply a Bad Idea? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Simon. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubs

[Puppet Users] Re: Installing and using a Puppet-Module

2013-11-01 Thread Simon Young
It's a good question, but I'm not sure this is possible. If the module isn't installed before compilation, then any resource types defined by ths module will be absent and the catalog won't compile. Are you trying to use puppet to install itself? If so, then the snake may be eating its own tail

[Puppet Users] Re: Geppetto with Subversion

2013-11-01 Thread Simon Young
on SVN then click on the question mark 'help' button in the bottom left hand corner, it should pop up a sidebar with a link to "SVN Preferences". Click on this and you'll get the "Subversive User Guide" which runs through all the options. Hope that helps! S

[Puppet Users] Re: Dynamic Environments, r10k, gitolite and Non-environment Puppet Config

2013-11-01 Thread Simon Young
Turns out there was a very simple solution to this: Create a new modules for the files, and deploy via r10k as part of the default environment. Puppet Master manage thyself... Simon. On Friday, 1 November 2013 11:51:31 UTC, Simon Young wrote: > > Hi all, > > Apologies if this ha

[Puppet Users] How to get Puppet Ent Agent for Mac Mountain Lion?

2013-11-12 Thread Simon Edwards
Dear All, I'm very new to Puppet Enterprise I have the following setup so far: 1. Puppet Master (Puppet Ent) on Ubuntu with its own Agent 2. Puppet Agent on MAC Mountain Lion Everything looked ok but then I noticed this on the MAC (below), which suggested to me I had the wrong Agent? I'm a

[Puppet Users] Re: The Future - ENCs vs Hiera?

2014-01-06 Thread simon c
For myself, I can see that Hiera is really the way to go, (with a good front end), however for where I am now on the puppet rollout, asking other admins to create even simple json/yaml files for each node would not get anywhere. So, I've got a very simple node terminus ENC script that parses

[Puppet Users] Re: Managing Eclipse with Puppet

2014-01-17 Thread Simon Tremblay
https://github.com/runthebusiness/puppet-eclipse Le jeudi 23 août 2012 17:43:19 UTC-4, Jeff Sussna a écrit : > > Does anyone know if there's a Puppet module available for managing Eclipse > plugins? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users"

[Puppet Users] Re: hiera-eyaml-gpg gives strange error

2014-01-29 Thread Simon Hildrew
hat could be wrong or how to debug this? > I've not seen that before. What versions of puppet/hiera/hiera-eyaml/hiera-eyaml-gpg are you using? Is there anything in the log on the puppetmaster? Can you raise an issue on the github project at https://github.com/sihil/hiera-eyaml-gpg wi

[Puppet Users] Trigger apt-get update if packages are to be installed

2016-06-06 Thread Simon Weald
Hi everyone I've got a little bit of an issue which I'm currently fighting with. At the moment, we pass an array of packages to be installed to the package resource, however I need to call an apt-get update prior to the package installation (in case we add a new repo etc). My snippet below shou

Re: [Puppet Users] Trigger apt-get update if packages are to be installed

2016-06-06 Thread Simon Weald
ensure=>1.2.3.4 > somewhere in the catalog. > > On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 07:46:47AM -0700, Simon Weald wrote: > >Hi everyone > > > >I've got a little bit of an issue which I'm currently fighting with. > At > >the moment, we pass an ar

Re: [Puppet Users] Trigger apt-get update if packages are to be installed

2016-06-06 Thread Simon Weald
empting to find a way around. On Monday, June 6, 2016 at 4:33:02 PM UTC+1, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Simon Weald > wrote: > > Hi everyone > > > > I've got a little bit of an issue which I'm currently fighting with. At > t

Re: [Puppet Users] encrypting hiera data?

2016-07-12 Thread Simon Hönscheid
Hi Doug, hiera-eyaml or trocla (random generation and storage backend(use mysql)) are your friends. If you just want to encrypt hiera data try hiera-eyaml. I prefer the gpg backend. Kind Regards Simon Am 08.07.16 um 15:29 schrieb dkoleary: Hey; I've come to the point where I ne

[Puppet Users] Issues creating a customer type/provider

2016-07-28 Thread Simon Weald
Hi guys I'm extending our in-house package management system to include management of apt's GPG keys (we're a Debian shop). Ruby isn't my forte, but I've cooked up what I think is a decent working type and provider which I can extend further if the need arises. Currently during a run I'm gettin

Re: [Puppet Users] Issues creating a customer type/provider

2016-07-29 Thread Simon Weald
Hi Martin Thanks for pointing that out; rookie mistake! I spotted a few other issues which I've now tidied up and I'm happy to say that it now works perfectly. Thanks for your help! On Friday, July 29, 2016 at 7:57:07 AM UTC+1, Martin Alfke wrote: > > Hi Simon, > > >

[Puppet Users] R10K deploy module module_name doesn't update Puppetfile of environments

2014-12-01 Thread Simon Tremblay
mmand. Otherwise, Puppetfile will not be updated. I just wanted to know if it is the expected behavior. Thanks, Simon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, se

[Puppet Users] Re: update package with condition

2015-01-15 Thread simon . oosthoek
the onlyif rule, have you tried running that command on a machine? It should be a valid command and result in an exit code 0 to be true and nonzero to be false... /Simon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscrib

[Puppet Users] PuppetDB type casting wierdness

2015-10-12 Thread Simon Murray
Given a site.pp that looks like this: define test_type ( $value = [], ) { $type = inline_template('<%= @value.class %>') notify { "${title} => ${type}": } } @@test_type { $::fqdn: value => [ $::fqdn ], } Test_type <<||>> I get the odd result when run on icinga: Notice: icinga.angel.net

Re: [Puppet Users] PuppetDB type casting wierdness

2015-10-13 Thread Simon Murray
Thanks Wyatt, my google fu is weak :) I'm stuck on puppetserver 1.1.1 and puppetdb 2.3.7 for the time being in my dev environment. I'll upgrade to the PC1 packages once I've got this current code deployed into production and see if it makes life easier. Then begins the task of upgrading production

[Puppet Users] Problems installing PuppetDB from source - the instructions don't actually work

2018-06-13 Thread Simon Tideswell
e to provide a package on Ubuntu 18 for PuppetDB for similar reasons to me (namely inaccessible sources)? Thanks, Simon. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from i

Re: [Puppet Users] Problems installing PuppetDB from source - the instructions don't actually work

2018-06-22 Thread Simon Tideswell
e broken, so I was a bit stuck. It's not a high priority, but I find PuppetBoard useful (from a sysadmin perspective). Simon On Saturday, June 16, 2018 at 7:29:50 AM UTC+10, Rob Browning wrote: > > Simon Tideswell > writes: > > > The instructions her

[Puppet Users] Re: Problems installing PuppetDB from source - the instructions don't actually work

2018-06-28 Thread Simon Tideswell
back to this later. It'd be really good if the instructions on the site could be altered so that they are applicable for the 'general public'. Simon On Thursday, June 14, 2018 at 10:01:14 AM UTC+10, Simon Tideswell wrote: > > See also > https://tickets.puppetlabs.

Re: [Puppet Users] Problems installing PuppetDB from source - the instructions don't actually work

2018-07-05 Thread Simon Tideswell
TA-INF/services/com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonFactory This file does exist in the jar however, *puppetlabs/puppetdb/core.clj*. Simon On Saturday, June 30, 2018 at 9:44:46 AM UTC+10, Rob Browning wrote: > > Simon Tideswell > writes: > > > No, I'm not trying to do anything fanc

[Puppet Users] Re: Problems installing PuppetDB from source - the instructions don't actually work

2018-07-19 Thread Simon Tideswell
any files that looked like they provided the schema or schema conversion within the source code tree. Simon On Thursday, June 14, 2018 at 10:01:14 AM UTC+10, Simon Tideswell wrote: > > See also > https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/projects/PDB/issues/PDB-3938?filter=allissues > .

Re: [Puppet Users] Problems installing PuppetDB from source - the instructions don't actually work

2018-07-24 Thread Simon Tideswell
-- I can probably use a remote DB running on U16 with PostgreSQL 9.5 and I'm hopeful that this will get me working. Thanks for your help thus far. I will let you know if I finall

Re: [Puppet Users] Problems installing PuppetDB from source - the instructions don't actually work

2018-07-24 Thread Simon Tideswell
Hello Rob Do you have a rough idea of the timeframe for Postgres 10 support? Now that I know the process of building a JAR you will find a will tester in me. Simon On Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at 3:11:01 AM UTC+10, Rob Browning wrote: > > Simon Tideswell > writes: > > > Than

Re: [Puppet Users] Problems installing PuppetDB from source - the instructions don't actually work

2018-07-25 Thread Simon Tideswell
*"Now that I know the process of building a JAR you will find a willING tester in me."* Arrggh, I hate it when I do that!!!! Simon On Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at 10:10:42 AM UTC+10, Simon Tideswell wrote: > > Hello Rob > > Do you have a rough idea of the timeframe for Po

[Puppet Users] Re: Updates to CA command line interaction in Puppet 6

2018-09-19 Thread Simon Tideswell
tage over just using the server's own certname to be honest? Simon On Wednesday, September 19, 2018 at 2:33:05 AM UTC+10, Maggie Dreyer wrote: > > Hello! > > As you may know, we are about to release Puppet 6. This release contains *a > major update to the command line tools* that

[Puppet Users] Re: Updates to CA command line interaction in Puppet 6

2018-09-19 Thread Simon Tideswell
Forgot to mention: this is on Ubuntu 18 (Bionic) using the packages pulled from apt.puppetlabs.com. Simon On Thursday, September 20, 2018 at 8:58:06 AM UTC+10, Simon Tideswell wrote: > > Hello > > I've upgraded a test server from Puppet 5.5 to Puppet 6 and the upgrade >

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Updates to CA command line interaction in Puppet 6

2018-10-01 Thread Simon Tideswell
ing different clients and so the *auth.conf* is managed by an ERB template and so the above is actually ... *allow: "<%= @fqdn -%>"* ... in my template file. Simon On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 2:12 AM wrote: > Hi, > > @Simon: Could you please describe how you solved that prob

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Platform 6.3.0 is now available!

2019-02-28 Thread Simon Tideswell
t the same from home (Telstra) or at work (something else). Simon On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 5:58 AM Puppet Product Updates < puppet-product-upda...@puppet.com> wrote: > The next monthly release in the Puppet 6 series is now available. Puppet > Platform 6.3.0 includes security i

[Puppet Users] The sense of the strict_hostname_checking boolean changed from 6.8.0-1 to 6.9.0-1 (Ubuntu 18)

2020-03-01 Thread Simon Tideswell
node 'my-lovely-node.mydomain.com' {* * stuff* *}* Not a biggy, but I wasted half an hour or so one Saturday morning because of this. Hopefully if someone reads this before upgrading they can save a similar minor irritation. Simon -- You received this message because you are subscr

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet on Ubuntu Focal

2020-04-29 Thread Simon Tideswell
The DEB files are not present under http://apt.puppetlabs.com/pool/focal/puppet/? Simon On Saturday, April 25, 2020 at 1:26:50 AM UTC+10, Arpit sharma wrote: > > I am having trouble using puppet(open-source) on Ubuntu Focal( as Focal > ships with ruby 2.7) mostly related to this issu

[Puppet Users] Thoughts about extlookup: http://blog.wl0.org/2011/05/thoughts-about-extlookup-in-puppet/

2011-05-12 Thread Simon J Mudd
and hence have proposed a possible way to keep the data closer together and make the extlookup() behaviour more explicit and thus IMO clearer. What do you think? Simon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this gr

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Thoughts about extlookup: http://blog.wl0.org/2011/05/thoughts-about-extlookup-in-puppet/

2011-05-14 Thread Simon J Mudd
ere the configuration gets more complicated because the required parameters depend less on the hostname/domain/etc but on groups of boxes setup a certain way. Maybe I'm just missing examples to indicate how this can be done. Nevertheless the "lack of transparency" of how the extlo

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Thoughts about extlookup: http://blog.wl0.org/2011/05/thoughts-about-extlookup-in-puppet/

2011-05-14 Thread Simon J Mudd
I totally encourage you to use extlookup as a example and solve the > problem in your own way or even to evaluate writing your own ENC. One way or another I am probably going to go down that path. For the reasons stated earlier building a complete ENC means that everything depends on it. usi

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Thoughts about extlookup: http://blog.wl0.org/2011/05/thoughts-about-extlookup-in-puppet/

2011-05-14 Thread Simon J Mudd
kc7...@gmail.com (Patrick) writes: > On May 14, 2011, at 12:55 AM, Simon J Mudd wrote: ... > > Not if they are part of the primary key. That's part of the point. > > Any modern database can sustain thousands of queries a second doing this. > > However, you are right s

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Thoughts about extlookup: http://blog.wl0.org/2011/05/thoughts-about-extlookup-in-puppet/

2011-05-14 Thread Simon J Mudd
shouldn't be necessary to have to go and search for this. Simon -- 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 this group, send email to

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Thoughts about extlookup: http://blog.wl0.org/2011/05/thoughts-about-extlookup-in-puppet/

2011-05-14 Thread Simon J Mudd
sjm...@pobox.com (Simon J Mudd) writes: > john.bollin...@stjude.org (jcbollinger) writes: > > > In fact, Puppet Labs's own recently updated style guide recommends > > against using extlookup(), though that position is controversial. > > I found the URL: http

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Thoughts about extlookup: http://blog.wl0.org/2011/05/thoughts-about-extlookup-in-puppet/

2011-05-16 Thread Simon J Mudd
john.bollin...@stjude.org (jcbollinger) writes: > On May 14, 8:52 am, Simon J Mudd wrote: > > > However, from the discussion a few things strike me: > > > > 1. the use of parameterised classes is recommended heavily. I've just > > found out about this "ne

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Thoughts about extlookup: http://blog.wl0.org/2011/05/thoughts-about-extlookup-in-puppet/

2011-05-16 Thread Simon J Mudd
check first for the host, then the domain, > > then ., but that's not specific, _and_ may be important. > > When you say it's not "specific," do you mean that you can't tell from > the extlookup() call itself? The typical use of extlookup() involves >

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Thoughts about extlookup: http://blog.wl0.org/2011/05/thoughts-about-extlookup-in-puppet/

2011-05-16 Thread Simon J Mudd
what I'm doing or why I'm doing it wrong, or provide me a precise, clear explanation of how better to solve my original problem. We talk in generics and that means we never fully understand each other. I guess the reasons are obvious but it's probably frustrating to us all. Nev

[Puppet Users] puppet, facter and using non-scalar values

2008-10-10 Thread Simon J Mudd
.each do |line| if line =~ /\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)/ puts "match vg: " + $2 + ", lv: " + $1 lvname = $1 vgname = $2 # now fill lvname into vol_groups by vgname...

[Puppet Users] puppet, facter and non-scalar values (2nd attempt)

2008-10-14 Thread Simon J Mudd
aspects of the system? Is it ok to somehow directly interface to Ruby to do this and if so how's this best done? Thanks for pointers and suggestions. Simon --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pup

[Puppet Users] Re: puppet, facter and using non-scalar values

2008-10-16 Thread Simon J Mudd
27;m trying to see how this should be solved using puppet. The only thing that surprises me is that I don't see recipes or archives which mention the use of LVM for configuring servers with puppet yet this seems to be such a basic task of building a server. And at least 2 platforms I know use L

[Puppet Users] Re: puppet, facter and using non-scalar values

2008-10-16 Thread Simon J Mudd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon J Mudd) writes: > The only thing that surprises me is that I don't see recipes or archives > which mention the use of LVM for configuring servers with puppet yet > this seems to be such a basic task of building a server. And at least > 2 platforms I kn

[Puppet Users] Re: Adobe Reader Recipe

2008-11-06 Thread Simon J Mudd
ar-8.1.3-1.install.sh > script and that the whole thing can be done in puppet or facteur. We've started doing this with another non-rpm package on Linux. however I was startled to see at least on our setup that it took several minutes to copy the directory including the binary and install script

[Puppet Users] Re: Adobe Reader Recipe

2008-11-07 Thread Simon J Mudd
a change to a ReST desgin for the file transfer > is coming that should resolve this. Well I wait for that change as the current design is just unworkable for large files. And 40MB is not really that large. Simon --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this messag

[Puppet Users] file type and unless method

2008-11-08 Thread Simon J Mudd
t; Exec[install_script] } exec { "install_script": ... } This seems like it would provide a nice easy way to run custom install scripts and only copy over the files once. The install script would clean up afterwards. I don't think this is somet

[Puppet Users] Re: file type and unless method

2008-11-09 Thread Simon J Mudd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Joshua Timberman") writes: > On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 3:42 AM, Simon J Mudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> One thought I had was to have an unless method/attribute in the file >> type which would allow us to disable the configured fil

[Puppet Users] Re: file type and unless method

2008-11-10 Thread Simon J Mudd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon J Mudd) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Joshua Timberman") writes: > >> On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 3:42 AM, Simon J Mudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> One thought I had was to have an unless method/attribute in the fil

[Puppet Users] Re: Adobe Reader Recipe

2008-11-10 Thread Simon J Mudd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (RijilV) writes: > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Simon J Mudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Evan Hisey") writes: > > > > Depending on your puppet version, yes. It is a known > is

[Puppet Users] Re: onlyif functionality for the File type

2008-11-17 Thread Simon J Mudd
ted in my posting a few days ago an onlyif option would be very nice. I phrased it in my posting as unless " some condition", which is just the negative condition of the onlyif condition. My guess the poster wants to do the same thing. Simon --~--~-~--~~~-

[Puppet Users] How best to distribute version-controlled information to clients?

2008-12-01 Thread Simon J Mudd
l_of_source_including_authentication_info, version => $tag_to_deploy, type => version_only, # or whole_tree } I see a reference to: https://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/Recipes/SubversionIntegration but this seems to be subversion specific and not cover the cvs and git wh

[Puppet Users] How to use definitions with common resources?

2009-04-15 Thread Simon J Mudd
t line 83; cannot redefine at //etc/puppet/services//manifests/init.pp:83 on node dev01.example.com I'd rather NOT download the install script unless I want to install the software and of course the install script is designed to install multiple versions (if necessary) at once. Additi

[Puppet Users] Re: Licensing and Copyright

2009-04-15 Thread Simon J Mudd
mponents is able to be expanded reasonably transparently. Looking at the problem this way doesn't change the licensing concerns you are expressing but does make them much easier to manage than now. That might require a lot of initial work, and r

[Puppet Users] Re: How to use definitions with common resources?

2009-04-15 Thread Simon J Mudd
ee why with a definition that has a "redefine" which is _identical_ that it should worry so much. Having a common file on the system defined exactly the same way shouldn't be a problem. Even if I need to add a new attribute like: accept_duplicate_resource => true, would be fine

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