We're in the process of testing a very long overdue upgrade of our
puppetmaster from 0.22.4 to 0.24.8 to facilitate upgrading our Puppet
clients later. Because the system where puppetmasterd is installed must
also have it's puppetd upgraded, we've run into an issue with a pattern
commonly used in our Puppet manifests such as the following: file {
"/etc/sysctl.conf": owner => "root", group => "root", mode => 444,
source => [ "puppet://$server/kernel/sysctl.conf.$hostname" ] } where we
needed to manage the contents of /etc/sysctl.conf on a few of our
systems but were not ready to declare that file to be "pristine" (and
thus ready for a generic copy of the file) on all other hosts. This was
achieved by not creating sysctl.conf.alpha or sysctl.conf.beta files and
leaving out an "ensure" parameter, thus having no source for the
resource is not considered an error. On a test system with an upgraded
puppetmasterd and upgraded puppetd, we are getting errors such as the
following: Jul 20 20:36:42 beta puppetd[30414]:
(//Node[genericunixserver]/kernel/File[/etc/sysctl.conf]) Failed to
retrieve current state of resource: No specified source was found from
puppet:///kernel/sysctl.conf.beta and we'd like to restore the previous
behavior of /etc/sysctl.conf only being managed on systems we provide a
matching entry for in the "source" parameter. A admittedly brief check
of the type reference didn't seem to reveal any obvious leads. Is anyone
else using this kind of pattern and if so, how are you implementing it?
-- David R. Sowder, Linux Systems Admin (Software Systems Specialist II)
Office of Information Technology, University of Texas at Arlington Work:
817-272-1081 dav...@uta.edu http://www.uta.edu/
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