I have a splink class i can share once I get back to the office. Creating the user/group first is the best approach.
Ed Sent from my iPhone On May 14, 2009, at 11:40 PM, Jeremy Hansen <jer...@skidrow.la> wrote: > > If there's a section in the documentation that highlights this, please > feel free to point me in the right direction. I am definitely a > beginner. > > I'm trying to build a recipe to install splunk clients on all our > hosts. Splunk is a commercial log aggregation utility. The RPMs > splunk > distributes breaks a lot of rules in terms of RPM standards. I'm > trying > to use puppet to alleviate some of this pain and find work around > where > the rpm fails. > > The splunk rpm tries to dynamically allocate uid and gid during its > installation. This is bad for us because we use ldap and uid/gid may > not be reflected in local files. So I figured I could use puppet to > create the splunk user FIRST to dictate a static uid/gid and then > install the package, but I can't seem to figure out how to tell puppet > to install the user first and then install the package from our yum > repo. > > Then after the package is installed, splunk has some commands to > enable > itself in init. I'd like that to run AFTER the package install. Then > there's a couple other commands to put splunk into the right mode. > > How do I dictate the order of how things get executed? Right now it's > installing the package first, then doing a usermod/groupmod to set the > uid/gid and it's trying to run the init commands before the package is > installed, etc. > > Thanks > -jeremy > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
