Re: [Puppet Users] bug: --verbose on v2.6.6 doesn't always report changes. known and fixed in 2.7?

2011-09-23 Thread Jason Slagle
Are you running passenger? I believe there is/was a known issue with this and passenger. Jason Sent from my iPad On Sep 23, 2011, at 21:29, Jo Rhett wrote: > I want to check in and see if this is a known issue before I open a bug. I'm > seeing a particular issue where after a manifest chan

Re: [Puppet Users] Official puppetlabs position on cron vs puppet as a service?

2011-09-23 Thread Len Rugen
We're switching back to running as a service, but we observed that the puppet runs tended to cluster together. (We are using foreman also). We used "splay" at boot to randomize the puppet runs, in case we rebooted a lot of systems at the same time, but over time, puppet runs woud cluster together

[Puppet Users] bug: --verbose on v2.6.6 doesn't always report changes. known and fixed in 2.7?

2011-09-23 Thread Jo Rhett
I want to check in and see if this is a known issue before I open a bug. I'm seeing a particular issue where after a manifest change, the first run with the newly compiled catalog will not report the changes made to the system. For example, 1. I edited a manifest to change the ntp servers. 2

Re: [Puppet Users] Root User

2011-09-23 Thread Scott Smith
You realize that you can set the RHS of the from address to an fqdn, right? On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Peter Berghold wrote: > Hi folks, > > I thought I'd get clever tonight and add to my base class for node > configuation the statement: > > user { root : comment => "Root User on ${hostname

[Puppet Users] Root User

2011-09-23 Thread Peter Berghold
Hi folks, I thought I'd get clever tonight and add to my base class for node configuation the statement: user { root : comment => "Root User on ${hostname}" } My hope was that I would change the GECOS field for the root user so that emails from root on the machines would identify which "root" th

[Puppet Users] Official puppetlabs position on cron vs puppet as a service?

2011-09-23 Thread Brian Gupta
Over the years many shops have come to start running puppet via cron to address memory leaks in earlier versions of Ruby, but the official position was that puppet was meant to be run as a continually running service. I am wondering if the official position has changed. On one hand many if not all

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet agent memory useage

2011-09-23 Thread Aaron Grewell
We're running Puppet via cron instead of daemonized which eliminates these kinds of issues. On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Martin Alfke wrote: > Hi, > On 23.09.2011, at 13:01, datastream wrote: > > > Hi, > >Three days ago i notice puppet agent in many node use a lot of > memory(some nodes

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet agent memory useage

2011-09-23 Thread Martin Alfke
Hi, On 23.09.2011, at 13:01, datastream wrote: > Hi, >Three days ago i notice puppet agent in many node use a lot of memory(some > nodes about 1G),and many of them start at April 23. All system is debian > 6.0.2/amd64(puppet 2.6.5-2,facter 1.5.7 ), everything is up to date.After > restart

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Export variables into other classes

2011-09-23 Thread Chris
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 13:26 -0700, jcbollinger wrote: > > > > I would like the backup_include to automatically include /var/www if > > the host is an apache server (for example), and I would like those > > directories to be defined in the apache class (not the bacula class) > > > > Any clever ways

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Export variables into other classes

2011-09-23 Thread Chris
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 13:26 -0700, jcbollinger wrote: > > > > I would like the backup_include to automatically include /var/www if > > the host is an apache server (for example), and I would like those > > directories to be defined in the apache class (not the bacula class) > > > > Any clever ways

[Puppet Users] puppet agent memory useage

2011-09-23 Thread datastream
Hi, Three days ago i notice puppet agent in many node use a lot of memory(some nodes about 1G),and many of them start at April 23. All system is debian 6.0.2/amd64(puppet 2.6.5-2,facter 1.5.7 ), everything is up to date.After restart puppet, in three days, memory usage grows from 56M to 12

[Puppet Users] Watch day two of PuppetConf with live streaming video

2011-09-23 Thread Michelle Carroll
Hi all, Quick reminder that if you couldn't make it to PuppetConf, we're offering free live streaming of the event. We have a great line-up of speakers, including Martin Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus, at 9 am. Check it out here: http://bit.ly/qBY5Nb Thanks, -- Michelle Carroll miche...@puppetlabs.co

[Puppet Users] ldap ENC extension to use environment parent node

2011-09-23 Thread habanero
Hi, We currently use ldap ENC to set server role variables and extlookup to set domain or environment variables. I have a suggestion regarding ldap use as an ENC - if a node within ldap has the environment attribute set then it should inherit/mixin (if available) from a node named after it's envi

Re: [Puppet Users] CloudPack problems with CentOS AMIs

2011-09-23 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Hamoun gh wrote: > I noticed the following problems when working with CloudPack and the > image ami-08728661 (and it probably apples to other CentOS images as > well) > > 1) the ssh user in this AMI is ec2-user, but sudo to root is not > possible in the ssh command

[Puppet Users] Re: Recommended way to install custom packages, and what does the Service type's manifest attribute do?

2011-09-23 Thread Dieter De Meyer
Hi, it just so happens that I'm attempting to do the same thing, automating the install of a Nexus repository. I'm quite new to building RPMs, so I was wondering if you would be willing to share your RPM build script and puppet manifests ? I'm currently writing a puppet module that performs the

[Puppet Users] Re: Variable number of variables in external node output...

2011-09-23 Thread jcbollinger
On Sep 22, 4:11 pm, Douglas Garstang wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:56 PM, jcbollinger > wrote: > > > On Sep 22, 11:05 am, Douglas Garstang wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:57 AM, jcbollinger > >> wrote: > > >> > On Sep 21, 6:34 pm, Nigel Kersten wrote: > >> >> On Wed, Sep 21, 201

Re: [Puppet Users] Error 'Could not find relationship target'

2011-09-23 Thread Ken Barber
Hmm - could be that you can't pass a hash in as the namevar? At least last time I looked this was true :-) ... you can certainly pass a hash as a parameter if you like - but namevar should be just a string ... or array to create multiple resources - but still an array of strings :-). Not sure why i