Hi Dan, I am an absolute beginner at Puppet, but I do have it running under 10.5 and am using it for package management of our Mac laptops and desktops. I haven't used puppet on 10.4 though.
I use Nigel Kerstens packages from https://sites.google.com/a/explanatorygap.net/puppet/ and have had no trouble with them. You don't have to make users on the mac because puppet only runs as root, I believe due to a limitation in how macosx works. My rough notes on getting started are: 1) Install Puppet and Factor packages from Nigel's site 2) create /etc/puppet/puppet.conf with the following content [main] user = 0 group = 0 server = puppet.example.com certname = puppet. example.com autosign = false [puppetd] evaltrace = true factsync = true 3) create /etc/puppet/fileserver.conf [facts] path /etc/puppet/dist/facts allow * [files] path /etc/puppet/dist/files allow * 4) mkdir /etc/puppet/dist/facts 5) mkdir /etc/puppet/dist/files 6) create /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp (can be empty to start with) 7) sudo puppetmasterd --no-daemonize --verbose That should get your puppetmasterd running. I use the Launchd script from https://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetWithLaunchd to keep it running. I hope that helps, Marcus. On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Daniel Koblas <itsupp...@chrisking.com> wrote: > Hello group, > I am new to puppet and trying to get it running on a 10.4.11 server. I've > tried installing puppet using every method I can find (os x pkg files, ruby > gems, compiling from source), to no avail. I have followed the > documentation on the reductivelabs site as carefully as possible, as well as > doing a bit of experimenting on my own, and have not been able to get it to > run. > When I run > # /usr/bin/puppetmasterd --mkusers > I get this in the system.log: > > Feb 6 12:53:57 server puppetmasterd[11917]: > (/Settings[top]/Settings[main]/Group[puppet]/ensure) created > Feb 6 12:54:01 server puppetmasterd[11917]: > (/Settings[top]/Settings[main]/User[puppet]/ensure) created > Feb 6 12:54:01 server puppetmasterd[11917]: > (/Settings[top]/Settings[metrics]/File[/var/puppet/rrd]) Failed to retrieve > current state of resource: Could not find user puppet > Feb 6 12:54:01 server puppetmasterd[11917]: > (/Settings[top]/Settings[main]/File[/var/puppet/log]) Failed to retrieve > current state of resource: Could not find user puppet > Feb 6 12:54:01 server puppetmasterd[11917]: > (/Settings[top]/Settings[reporting]/File[/var/puppet/reports]) Failed to > retrieve current state of resource: Could not find user puppet > It looks like it creates the users, but it doesn't - I can see no evidence > of it doing so. The puppetmasterd quits on failure, returning the 3 errors > here to stdout as well as the system.log file. I have not been able to find > any detailed information about how to set this up on OS X or what I might be > doing wrong nor have I had any success in getting the daemon to run. Any > help would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks in advance. > -Dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
