Hi-- I'm a newbie trying out puppet for the first time. I want to install Puppet on a master and a client. The system is a clean VM with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga). Here is what I did:
# wget http://puppetlabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-latest.tgz # tar xzf puppet-latest.tgz # cd puppet-2.6.2/ # ruby install.rb # puppetmasterd --mkuser /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/settings.rb:731:in `initialize': Permission denied - /etc/puppet/ssl/ca/ca_key.pem (Errno::EACCES) from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/settings.rb: 731:in `open' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/settings.rb: 731:in `writesub' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util.rb:152:in `withumask' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/settings.rb: 730:in `writesub' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/suidmanager.rb: 62:in `asuser' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/settings.rb: 723:in `writesub' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/settings.rb: 709:in `write' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/indirector/ssl_file.rb: 156:in `write' ... 17 levels... from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/application.rb:286:in `run' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/application.rb:393:in `exit_on_fail' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/application.rb:286:in `run' from /usr/sbin/puppetmasterd:4 Starting up the master also fails (it just hangs): /usr/sbin/ puppetmasterd --verbose --no-daemonize -d TIA! Jack -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@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.