Re: [Puppet Users] kernel 2.6.18-274.7.1.el5 will cork your puppet clients

2011-12-03 Thread Len Rugen
Is the kernel going to be fixed or is it now broken as designed? On Dec 2, 2011 6:56 PM, "Jo Rhett" wrote: > > This keeps getting mentioned, but people keep coming onto IRC and the mailing list re-reporting it, so we really need to get this out. In kernel 2.6.18-274.7.1.el5 they changed the way a

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet considered harmful?

2011-12-03 Thread Phil Frost
On 12/03/2011 04:30 PM, Jeff Sussna wrote: I am considering installing a Puppet agent on a legacy server running an old, crappy, slow, leaky, yet important Java app. Nervous about introducing anything that might (further) destabilize the app. What are people's experiences with Puppet in terms of

[Puppet Users] Puppet considered harmful?

2011-12-03 Thread Jeff Sussna
I am considering installing a Puppet agent on a legacy server running an old, crappy, slow, leaky, yet important Java app. Nervous about introducing anything that might (further) destabilize the app. What are people's experiences with Puppet in terms of resource usage (CPU/ memory/network/etc)? For

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: How to import variables from another manifests/file??

2011-12-03 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Sans wrote: > > > > Thanks for the typo/thinko correction :) > > > > Hopefully this documentation should make the right info apparent? > http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/variables.html > > > > If not, please file bugs with us so we can make this easier to unders

Re: [SPAM] Re: [Puppet Users] how to restrict an exec?

2011-12-03 Thread Kristof Willaert
[snip] But that wouldn't work with puppet kick, right? I want to be able to have > a host reboot another host. :-) That looks to me more like an orchestration issue, which is probably better solved by a tool like mcollective, func, rundeck, ... You are not changing state here, merely executing

Re: [Puppet Users] Chmoding files in directory with around 33000 files is slow

2011-12-03 Thread Tony G.
On Dec 2, 2011 4:03 PM, "Michael Stahnke" wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Idar Borlaug wrote: > >> > >> Hi > >> > >> Just wanted to know if anyhow has a great workaround for modifing user > >> and group in a folder with