Sorry to be a thread-necromancer, but we're seeing the same problem on a tiny subset of our hosts. We saw the problem on a CentOS 5 x86_64 host, then it mysteriously went away, and now we're consistently seeing it on a CentOS 5 i386 host. As with pattryn, the resource applies successfully when run from the command line with *puppet apply*, but does not when Puppet is running with *puppet agent -t*. SELinux is in permissive mode. Things work fine when nscd is running, but like many CentOS 5 users, we'll never touch that thing in production.
We saw this behavior originally on the 2.7 client, upgraded to the 3.0 client, and are still seeing the issue. Anyone have any ideas? -Jeff On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 3:09:07 PM UTC-4, jcbollinger wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 9:09:12 AM UTC-5, krish wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:28 PM, pattryn <pat...@gmail.com <javascript:>> >> wrote: >> > Nope. >> > >> > Curiously it works if I enable the nscd daemon but it's not very >> reliable >> > and I would prefer not to use it. >> > >> >> >> nscd is kinda required to read your passwd database and such. > > > Not so. Nscd is an entirely optional service. Many people don't use it. > Some Linux distros don't even install it by default. > > >> AFAIK, >> puppet relies on it to read if a user/group exist <-- Can someone >> re-confirm? :) >> > > No, because that's not true either. How Puppet determines which users and > groups exist depends on which User and Group "providers" are chosen, which > depends on the OS and the available tools, but nscd is not relevant -- it > doesn't operate at the level of the system tools Puppet uses. > > > John > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/fDItE2r_wA0J. 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.
