[Puppet Users] Re: force a reboot

2009-04-14 Thread Tim Harper
Hey there, I think you would just run "/sbin/reboot" exec { "reboot machine after kernel upgrade": command => "/sbin/reboot", subscribe => Exec["upgrade kernel"], refreshonly => true } Tim On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:23 PM, James Richardson wrote: > Hi, > > I am just starting to try

[Puppet Users] force a reboot

2009-04-14 Thread James Richardson
Hi, I am just starting to try to learn/use puppet. The problem I am trying to overcome now it how to make a client reboot after a kernel upgrade. Alternatively, what is the best practice for managing kernels on a debian system. Thanks -- James Richardson Debian GNU/Linux Consultant http://www.l

[Puppet Users] Re: How To: Puppet Setup on Redhat 8 using the puppet gem.

2009-04-14 Thread Larry Ludwig
RH 8!!! I didn't think anyone was still using it ;-) Thanks for info. Unfortunately there are more people using old versions RH than you think. -L On Apr 14, 2009, at 8:29 PM, Brandon Evans wrote: > > I got puppet installed and running on Redhat 8 today. I'm passing > on my > notes to the

[Puppet Users] How To: Puppet Setup on Redhat 8 using the puppet gem.

2009-04-14 Thread Brandon Evans
I got puppet installed and running on Redhat 8 today. I'm passing on my notes to the list to help out others that may want or need puppet running on older Redhat servers. This is pretty much a copy & paste from my own personal wiki so please forgive any odd formating. Puppet Setup on Re

[Puppet Users] Re: Allowing unauthenticated client access to puppetca.getcert

2009-04-14 Thread Scott
So this turned out to be caused by the fact that I had changed the name of one of our servers and I hadn't signed the cert for it yet. The error message is not very helpful at all since it references "localhost" instead of the server that's trying to authenticate so I've filed a bug for this: ht

[Puppet Users] Accessing config params from within manifest?

2009-04-14 Thread Jim
Can I access config params like $vardir from a manifest? I would like to refer to files relative to that parameter rather than their absolute paths. (These paths will be passed to the file function or a function like it) Thanks, Jim --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You rece

[Puppet Users] Re: Nagios resources create files unreadable by Nagios

2009-04-14 Thread Scott
James, thanks for the suggestion: http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/2158 Cheers, Scott On Apr 14, 5:16 am, James Turnbull wrote: > Have you logged a bug for this then? > > Regards > > James Turnbull > > On 13/04/2009, at 10:38 PM, Scott wrote: > > > > > Graham, I've asked about this ex

[Puppet Users] Allowing unauthenticated client access to puppetca.getcert

2009-04-14 Thread Scott
So a few days ago, I started seeing large numbers of the following error in the logs of our puppetmaster (large meaning 5 every second): Apr 14 14:49:09 puppet-server puppetmasterd[32314]: Allowing unauthenticated client localhost(127.0.0.1) access to puppetca.getcert Googling this yielded one p

[Puppet Users] libactiverecord-ruby1.8 on Debian makes fail.

2009-04-14 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 07:50:10PM +0100, Brice Figureau wrote: > > On 24/03/09 19:40, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 07:33:50PM +0100, Brice Figureau wrote: > >> I'll tend to suggest you to rm -rf /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/active_* > >> just to see if that helps (take a backup befor

[Puppet Users] Re: Can I use Puppet to run system updates?

2009-04-14 Thread Ross McKerchar
> -Original Message- > From: puppet-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:puppet- > us...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of thierry.thelliez.t...@gmail.com > Sent: 13 April 2009 19:23 > To: Puppet Users > Subject: [Puppet Users] Can I use Puppet to run system updates? > > 1- VMWare tools that want t