[Puppet Users] Re: genconf generated config aborts

2009-10-15 Thread Rob Chanter
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:49 PM, James Turnbull wrote: > > 2009/10/14 Paul Lathrop : >> You misunderstand. Nigel and I are saying the generated config should >> be known to *work*; it shouldn't have genconfig set to true in it. It >> is counterintuitive for the output of --genconfig to be a confi

[Puppet Users] Re: genconf generated config aborts

2009-10-14 Thread James Turnbull
2009/10/14 Douglas Garstang : > > Please don't strip it out. The documentation is terrible and this at > least gives me a known good working config. > Hi - please expand on the "Documentation is terrible" comment. :) How can we improve it? What's wrong with it? Where are the areas that you're

[Puppet Users] Re: genconf generated config aborts

2009-10-14 Thread James Turnbull
2009/10/14 Paul Lathrop : > You misunderstand. Nigel and I are saying the generated config should > be known to *work*; it shouldn't have genconfig set to true in it. It > is counterintuitive for the output of --genconfig to be a config file > that will not start up a puppetmasterd in "normal" mod

[Puppet Users] Re: genconf generated config aborts

2009-10-13 Thread Douglas Garstang
Agreed. On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Paul Lathrop wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Douglas Garstang > wrote: >> >> Please don't strip it out. The documentation is terrible and this at >> least gives me a known good working config. > > Douglas, > > You misunderstand. Nigel and I

[Puppet Users] Re: genconf generated config aborts

2009-10-13 Thread Paul Lathrop
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > > Please don't strip it out. The documentation is terrible and this at > least gives me a known good working config. Douglas, You misunderstand. Nigel and I are saying the generated config should be known to *work*; it shouldn't have g

[Puppet Users] Re: genconf generated config aborts

2009-10-13 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > > Please don't strip it out. The documentation is terrible and this at > least gives me a known good working config. But it doesn't give you a working config. We're not talking about stripping out the --genconfig functionality, but that

[Puppet Users] Re: genconf generated config aborts

2009-10-13 Thread Douglas Garstang
Please don't strip it out. The documentation is terrible and this at least gives me a known good working config. On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Paul Lathrop wrote: >> >> Doug, >> >> Remove genconfig = true from the puppet.conf file > >

[Puppet Users] Re: genconf generated config aborts

2009-10-13 Thread Paul Lathrop
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > I've often wondered about the utility of having that in the generated > config file, and it's bitten me several times. > > Is there a reason we don't strip it out? +1 --Paul --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You receiv

[Puppet Users] Re: genconf generated config aborts

2009-10-13 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Paul Lathrop wrote: > > Doug, > > Remove genconfig = true from the puppet.conf file I've often wondered about the utility of having that in the generated config file, and it's bitten me several times. Is there a reason we don't strip it out? > > --Paul > > On

[Puppet Users] Re: genconf generated config aborts

2009-10-13 Thread Douglas Garstang
D'oh! Thanks. On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Paul Lathrop wrote: > > Doug, > > Remove genconfig = true from the puppet.conf file > > --Paul > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Douglas Garstang > wrote: >> >> When I run puppetmasterd with the --genconfig option and use that as >> my starting

[Puppet Users] Re: genconf generated config aborts

2009-10-13 Thread Paul Lathrop
Doug, Remove genconfig = true from the puppet.conf file --Paul On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > > When I run puppetmasterd with the --genconfig option and use that as > my starting puppet.conf file, puppetmasterd dumps the full config to > the screen and then aborts.