On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Douglas Garstang <doug.garst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Can anyone in the know please help to clear this up? > > Does puppetmaster look for [puppetd] or [puppetmasterd] in > /etc/puppet/puppet.conf ???
[puppetmasterd] I believe. That's what I always use on my servers. > > 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 > > > > -- nigel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
