Can anyone in the know please help to clear this up? Does puppetmaster look for [puppetd] or [puppetmasterd] in /etc/puppet/puppet.conf ???
Doug. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Nigel Kersten <nig...@google.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Douglas Garstang > <doug.garst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I'm getting really really frustrated with puppet. >> >> Why is it that when I install the puppet-server RPM, my default config >> file in /etc/puppet/puppet.conf has a [puppetd] section and not a >> [puppetmasterd] section? Isn't that what the puppetmaster looks for? >> The output from --genconfig generates a config file with a >> [puppetmasterd] section. I've been trying to get the client and server >> to talk to each other for over 24 hours now and inconsistency's like >> this are making it REALLY hard to get a good starting baseline. > > I've found this somewhat frustrating too Douglas. > > If you invoke puppetd --genconfig, the whole config is in a [puppetd] stanza. > If you invoke puppet --genconfig, the whole config is in a [puppet] stanza > If you invoke puppetmasterd --genconfig .... you get the picture. > > This is my understanding of how things work, and it's likely I'm wrong. > > [main] > # these things get set for puppet/puppetd/puppetmasterd > # unless overriden by a following stanza > > [puppet] > # these things just get set for puppet > # the standalone executable > > [puppetd] > # these things just get set for puppetd > # the client in the client-server modle > > [puppetmasterd] > # these things just get set for puppetmasterd > # the server in the client-server model > > I tend to work backwards somewhat with puppetmasterd configuration > files. I work it all out on the command line with a simple webrick > --no-daemonize --verbose invocation, adding flags as I work out what I > need, then reconstruct the puppet.conf [puppetmasterd] section based > upon the necessary settings. > > Once I have that working, I then get the same config working in > Passenger, which these days doesn't usually require any extra settings > in puppet.conf. > > > If you give us a bit more detail about what's going on, we can > probably help sort it out. > >> >> Doug. >> >> > >> > > > > -- > nigel > > > > -- Regards, Douglas Garstang http://www.linkedin.com/in/garstang Email: doug.garst...@gmail.com Cell: +1-805-340-5627 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
