Thanks Patrick, Stefan, Have installed puppetmaster package and have sorted the 'ownner' typo and file permissions. Have re-tested and everything is now looking good for me to start playing!
Thanks again, Edd! On Nov 14, 12:46 pm, Stefan Schulte <stefan.schu...@taunusstein.net> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:53:35PM +0000, Edd Grant wrote: > > Hi all, > > > 1: sudo apt-get install puppet, installation completed but I noted the > > following warning (is this important?): > > *adduser*: *Warning: The home directory* `/*var/lib/* > > *puppet*' *does not belong to the user you are currently creating* > > This is important because the puppetmaster will normally run as the user > puppet. And when you have something like ssldir = $vardir/ssl in your > /etc/puppet/pupppet.conf, then puppet cannot create its certificates. > > You can try the following as user root (or sudo) > > rm -R /var/lib/puppet > mkdir -m 0755 /var/lib/puppet > chown puppet:puppet /var/lib/puppet > puppet master --no-daemonize --verbose > > The puppetmaster now can/should create everything necessary in > /var/lib/puppet. In another terminal now run > > puppet agent --server puppet_or_whatever_hostname --test > > You should now see a certificate request via > puppet cert --list > > -Stefan > > application_pgp-signature_part > < 1KViewDownload -- 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.
