Generally when I see weird errors like this with users/group nscd has
gotten in my way. Might be worth disabling nscd (and making sure its
really off) then trying this again.
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:33 AM, shadyabhi <abhijeet.1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is precisely what I am observing.
>
> [root@index11 ~]# puppet resource group logstash ensure=present
> notice: /Group[logstash]/ensure: created
> group { 'logstash':
> ensure => 'present',
> }
> [root@index11 ~]# puppet resource user logstash ensure=present
> err: /User[logstash]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Could
> not create user logstash: Execution of '/usr/sbin/useradd -M logstash'
> returned 9: useradd: group logstash exists - if you want to add this user
> to that group, use -g.
>
> user { 'logstash':
> ensure => 'absent',
> }
> [root@index11 ~]#
>
> How do I fix this? I want to avoid not using execs. :)
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
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> Abhijeet R
> http://blog.abhijeetr.com
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