[Puppet Users] Re: softwareinventory with different preinstalled Linuxmachines / patch management

2009-04-05 Thread Mike Renfro
Patrick wrote: > 2) Updates / Patch management Are there any best-practices about > "Patch management with puppet"? For example, we want to upgrade a > package only if an earlier version currently exist on the client. > When I use "ensure => latest", a package would be updated to the > latest p

[Puppet Users] softwareinventory with different preinstalled Linuxmachines / patch management

2009-04-05 Thread Patrick
We have a grown linux environment, which are different in hardware/distribution/installed software. The clients are mainly maintained by our users, but sometimes we need to ensure that certain updates are installed. 1) We would like to gather the information about the softwarereleases installed o

[Puppet Users] Re: updating user passwords with puppet

2009-04-05 Thread Benjamin Kite
PHP usually uses the appropriate crypt system call for the system, so whether it is DES, SMD5 or BLF, I believe you can reliably generate hashed passwords like this: echo "" | php Also, in your manifest, you are using double-quotes (") to enclose the password. You will want to make su

[Puppet Users] RE: Default Schedule

2009-04-05 Thread Justin Lambert
Nobody has used a default schedule? Thanks, jl From: puppet-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:puppet-us...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Justin Lambert Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 12:31 PM To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com Subject: [Puppet Users] Default Schedule I am trying to set a default