[Puppet Users] Re: best puppetmaster platform?

2008-11-11 Thread Ski Kacoroski
I am using debian etch and have 4 puppetmasters handling 3000+ clients with no problems (hourly checkins). cheers, ski On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 23:08 -0700, Andrew Shafer wrote: > Mark, > > Are you using webrick or mongrel? > > How many clients do you have? > > Andrew > > > On Tue, Nov 11

[Puppet Users] Re: best puppetmaster platform?

2008-11-11 Thread Andrew Shafer
Mark, Are you using webrick or mongrel? How many clients do you have? Andrew On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:22 PM, James Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Mark D. Nagel wrote: > > We've been having a huge number of problems with puppetmaster seizing up > > on CentOS 4. We started with 0.23.2

[Puppet Users] Re: best puppetmaster platform?

2008-11-11 Thread James Turnbull
Mark D. Nagel wrote: > We've been having a huge number of problems with puppetmaster seizing up > on CentOS 4. We started with 0.23.2 and it worked, but the clients were > leaking memory and we hoped upgrading to 0.24.5 would help. Since then > we've had far worse problems, primarily that puppet

[Puppet Users] best puppetmaster platform?

2008-11-11 Thread Mark D. Nagel
We've been having a huge number of problems with puppetmaster seizing up on CentOS 4. We started with 0.23.2 and it worked, but the clients were leaking memory and we hoped upgrading to 0.24.5 would help. Since then we've had far worse problems, primarily that puppetmaster gets into a state wher

[Puppet Users] Re: CA_Server woes

2008-11-11 Thread Ohad Levy
http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetScalability see the second part about Centralized Puppet Infrastructure Ohad On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:35 PM, eventi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What documentation are you referring to? I couldn't find any > > On Nov 11, 12:11 am, "Ohad Levy" <[

[Puppet Users] Re: CA_Server woes

2008-11-11 Thread Eugene Ventimiglia
> > On 11 November 2008 12:43, Eugene Ventimiglia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I don't understand that last bit: "make sure the public cert of the >> puppetca is in the CA file on the puppetmaster (so it will trust the >> client)." >> How do I put the public cert of the puppetca into the puppetm

[Puppet Users] Re: CA_Server woes

2008-11-11 Thread RijilV
On 11 November 2008 12:43, Eugene Ventimiglia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't understand that last bit: "make sure the public cert of the > puppetca is in the CA file on the puppetmaster (so it will trust the > client)." > How do I put the public cert of the puppetca into the puppetmaster? >

[Puppet Users] Re: CA_Server woes

2008-11-11 Thread Eugene Ventimiglia
I don't understand that last bit: "make sure the public cert of the puppetca is in the CA file on the puppetmaster (so it will trust the client)." How do I put the public cert of the puppetca into the puppetmaster? On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 5:27 PM, RijilV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10 Novemb

[Puppet Users] Re: Trouble running puppet from cron

2008-11-11 Thread martin
After debugging this some more, I noticed that I get the same error when I run it as a daemon (puppetd). Where and how does puppetd pick up the PATH it is using? cheers, /Martin On Nov 10, 12:46 pm, Martin Englund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a problem when I run puppetd (--no-daemoniz

[Puppet Users] Re: Appending a file to an existing file

2008-11-11 Thread Mike Renfro
paul matthews wrote: > I think I'll try your option 2 as option 3 would mean over-writing the > dynamic data in motd that the security tool has added Those were three steps for a single option. The template applied in step 3 would *be* the template you mark up in step 2, but would only get app

[Puppet Users] Re: Appending a file to an existing file

2008-11-11 Thread paul matthews
Hi Mike, I think I'll try your option 2 as option 3 would mean over-writing the dynamic data in motd that the security tool has added Thanks for your help Rgds Paul 2008/11/11 Mike Renfro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > paul matthews wrote: > > > Thanks for the reply. Our set up here is slightly odd in

[Puppet Users] Re: Appending a file to an existing file

2008-11-11 Thread Mike Renfro
paul matthews wrote: > Thanks for the reply. Our set up here is slightly odd in that I need to run > a security tool which creates motd and then the puppet part adds a few more > lines with some extra variables. Alternatively to exec, you could: 1) let the security tool fix the motd once 2) co

[Puppet Users] Re: CA_Server woes

2008-11-11 Thread eventi
What documentation are you referring to? I couldn't find any On Nov 11, 12:11 am, "Ohad Levy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:50 AM, RijilV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2008/11/10 Eugene Ventimiglia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > If that doesn't work for you, there are some pag

[Puppet Users] Re: CA_Server woes

2008-11-11 Thread eventi
Here's the current state of affairs: Server A is the Puppetmaster for Server B I bring up Server B, run puppetd --test and sign Server B's cert on Server A I bring up Server C, set ca_server=servera, run puppetd --test and sign Server C's cert on Server A When I run puppetd --test on Server C (

[Puppet Users] Re: Adobe Reader Recipe

2008-11-11 Thread Brice Figureau
On 11/11/08 8:38, Simon J Mudd wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (RijilV) writes: > >> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Simon J Mudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snipped discussion] > cfengine does EXACTLY the same thing but you can also copy over files > which are large. So why can't puppet? I you wan

[Puppet Users] Re: Appending a file to an existing file

2008-11-11 Thread paul matthews
Hi Paul, Thanks for the reply. Our set up here is slightly odd in that I need to run a security tool which creates motd and then the puppet part adds a few more lines with some extra variables. This is my first post to the group btw so thanks for the reply. Being relatively new to puppet it so far

[Puppet Users] Re: Adobe Reader Recipe

2008-11-11 Thread Peter Meier
Hi > Puppet _can_ copy over large files. However, one of the artefacts of > the current implementation is that copying large files across is painfully > slow. and the main reason therefore is XMLRPC which puppet is currently using. and with xmlrpc everything have to be escaped which makes the wh

[Puppet Users] Re: Adobe Reader Recipe

2008-11-11 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 08:38:25AM +0100, Simon J Mudd wrote: > > Therefore I expect it to work. > > cfengine does EXACTLY the same thing but you can also copy over files > which are large. So why can't puppet? > Puppet _can_ copy over large files. However, one of the artefacts of the current