Turns out to be SELinux: httpd_t needs file write to puppet_var_lib_t.
Cheers,
Dave
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On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 17:04, David Chin <chi...@wfu.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to puppet, and am working through the Pro Puppet book
> (Turnbull & McCune). After a bit of struggling, I managed to get
> puppet + passenger + apache mostly working: a simple connect to the
> server on https port 8140 gives "The environment must be purely
> alphanumeric, not ''"
>
> Here is what I have running:
> - RedHat Enterprise Linux 6
> - httpd 2.2.15-15.el6
> - puppet 2.7.9-1.el6
> - puppet-server 2.7.9-1.el6
> - mod_passenger 3.0.11-1.el6
> - rubygem-rack 1.1.0-2.el6
> - facter 1.6.4-1.el6
>
> I'm sanitizing data here by using "puppet.example.com" as the server
> name.
>
> My /etc/puppet/puppet.conf has:
> [main]
> server = puppet.example.com
>
> On the puppet server, I am trying to test by doing: puppet agent --
> verbose --debug --test
>
> I get the error message:
>
> err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on
> SERVER: Permission denied - /var/lib/puppet/yaml/facts/
> puppet.example.com.yaml
> warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
> err: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run
>
> Permissions on /var/lib/puppet/yaml/facts:
>
> drwxr-x---. puppet puppet
> unconfined_u:object_r:puppet_var_lib_t:s0 /var/lib/puppet/yaml/facts/
>
> I manually created the .yaml file by doing: facter -y > ${factsdir}/$
> (facter fqdn).yaml
>
> Thanks in advance for any pointers.
>
> Cheers,
> -- David Chin
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