Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Is it possible to install actual OS using puppet?

2013-09-12 Thread Daniel Pittman
ups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puppet-razor/q4uCVMmUop0 Razor is awesome, but I would caution that you should expect to roll up your sleeves, pull on your developer hat, and at least be ready to diagnose and report bugs -- if not fix them -- if you plan on using it. -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet L

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Installing Operating systems

2013-02-04 Thread Daniel Pittman
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[Puppet Users] Re: [Puppet-dev] How can i create a class with this....?? Pls help

2013-01-22 Thread Daniel Pittman
nces/2.7.latest/metaparameter.html#require For "how to put them in a class", this: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/2.7/reference/modules_fundamentals.html -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received th

Re: [Puppet Users] Razor Mongodb related questions

2012-10-21 Thread Daniel Pittman
sense that Razor doesn't actually have *any* sort of query across the data, just key lookup or full collection lookup. Why do you ask? -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are s

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: The free software tarballs are now difficult to find

2012-10-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Monday, October 15, 2012 2:07:16 PM UTC-7, windowsrefund wrote: > > >> Windows (may I call you by your first name?), you seem to forget that I >> complimented your ideals before politely disagreeing. Your responses have >> been disproportionate to the discussion. Right now it's my opinion t

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: razor hang

2012-10-11 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Thursday, October 11, 2012 5:34:47 AM UTC-7, Markus Falb wrote: > On 9.10.2012 18:39, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > On Monday, October 8, 2012 9:30:37 AM UTC-7, Markus Falb wrote: > >> > >> I was playing with razor today. But I am not going far. > >> >

[Puppet Users] Re: razor hang

2012-10-09 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Monday, October 8, 2012 9:30:37 AM UTC-7, Markus Falb wrote: > > I was playing with razor today. But I am not going far. > > ipxe is downloading the microkernel but stays at 98% > On the server side I see > > /opt/razor/Razor/bin/razor -w boot default > '{"hw_id":"00:50:56:2e:c4:50___",

[Puppet Users] Re: [pe-users] MySQL and Pupp

2012-09-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
or Redhat 5/6? Can you share > the paths to the rpms or tarballs? They should be available as part of the core RedHat software distribution. -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because

[Puppet Users] Re: [pe-users] MySQL and PuppetDB

2012-09-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
for. PuppetDB has an internal database, or can use an external PostgreSQL database for extra performance. So, you should be able to run up PuppetDB and replace the use of MySQL with it. If the internal database is too slow you can upgrade by installing an external PostgreSQL server and using

Re: [Puppet Users] Testing for dependency loops?

2012-09-18 Thread Daniel Pittman
lly, thanks to the ENC, hiera, and create_resources.) -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To po

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: [Puppet-dev] Do you rely on 'param=>undef' being equal to '(nothing)'?

2012-09-17 Thread Daniel Pittman
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Re: [Puppet Users] Why agent report is so slow?

2012-09-17 Thread Daniel Pittman
l you need this? On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:14 AM, flex wrote: > Thank you, Daniel. > Then how can we make puppet not generate the reports? I try to add > 'report=false', but seems no effect. > > On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Daniel Pittman > wrote: >>

Re: [Puppet Users] Why agent report is so slow?

2012-09-14 Thread Daniel Pittman
if you are managing it you probably need to be managing it. :) -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this

Re: [Puppet Users] Why agent report is so slow?

2012-09-13 Thread Daniel Pittman
t (much) you can do to improve YAML output performance - although Telly, Puppet 3.0.0, will be a bit faster at building YAML when it is released. You could check to see if the performance problem comes from network transmission problems, but really there isn't much you can do to improve a single H

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: How can you copy directories from puppet master to the puppet client?

2012-09-11 Thread Daniel Pittman
will apply to *everything* in the tree. If you omit those statements it will copy the values from the files on the master. -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are su

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet agent as WSDL service

2012-09-11 Thread Daniel Pittman
he > broker. > > Because filters are applied, this helps to identify the right node that > matches the filters > in the message. Specific agent on the selected node can then be triggered > for execution. That sounds like a reasonable model. The Live Management facilities we provide

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet agent as WSDL service

2012-09-11 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Kayode Odeyemi wrote: > On Tuesday, 11 September 2012 19:35:27 UTC+1, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Kayode Odeyemi wrote: >> >> > I will like to have puppet agent as WSDL service that can be consumed &g

Re: [Puppet Users] How can you copy directories from puppet master to the puppet client?

2012-09-11 Thread Daniel Pittman
guides/file_serving.html http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#file -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users"

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet agent as WSDL service

2012-09-11 Thread Daniel Pittman
scribe what you are trying to achieve we can possibly help you work out how to achieve it. (PS: the development list is generally better for these sort of questions.) -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You re

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet temp file issue

2012-09-11 Thread Daniel Pittman
tch to run in "please, risk data loss for me" mode or anything, so you would have to patch the core file type in Puppet to change this. (Which you probably don't want anyhow.) -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer e

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Facter does not deliver ip addresses

2012-09-06 Thread Daniel Pittman
somewhere that doesn't do that, it is clearly and unambiguously a bug, and you should file a ticket at http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/facter/issues/new -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You re

Re: [Puppet Users] What is the intention of thin_storeconfigs?

2012-07-20 Thread Daniel Pittman
n you use PuppetDB, not only is performance better than full storeconfigs, it is usually better than thin storeconfigs. PuppetDB delivers this *without* giving up any information. I can't recommend strongly enough that you look to PuppetDB before you look to thin storeconfigs in production. -

Re: [Puppet Users] UX/UI of puppet help when face actions have unmet dependencies

2012-06-29 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Randall Hansen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote: > >> No, mentioning STDERR is terrible UX, even if I know what it means. :) >> >> I think a better approach would be to capture the error and report it >>

Re: [Puppet Users] UX/UI of puppet help when face actions have unmet dependencies

2012-06-28 Thread Daniel Pittman
r highlights through the text - see the module tool for examples. I think you should treat faces with some actions that failed separately. Perhaps call them out in this display, perhaps not, but certainly treat them in the `puppet help node` style output as "available actions" vs &

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Announce: Puppet 3.0.0rc1 Available

2012-05-29 Thread Daniel Pittman
do anything that `puppet agent` can do, without needing a central master. That means that anywhere puppet *apply* is installed requires Hiera - and that is part of the same package that includes the Puppet agent. -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 perc

Re: [Puppet Users] Announce: Puppet 3.0.0rc1 Available

2012-05-22 Thread Daniel Pittman
agent to change the node terminus from REST to something else (eg: plain or so) in order to avoid that check. That would bypass the specific issue, although we make absolutely no assurance that anything else will work correctly either. -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Announce: PuppetDB 0.9.0 (first release) is available

2012-05-21 Thread Daniel Pittman
better than the current MySQL and SQLite ActiveRecord backed engines. That makes it reasonable for most deployments without an external database, even if it is not as much of a performance win. -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consume

[Puppet Users] Re: [Puppet-dev] Re: Taking github noise away from puppet-dev list

2012-05-16 Thread Daniel Pittman
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Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet 3.0 and Hiera

2012-05-04 Thread Daniel Pittman
gt; default that should be heira, but in case someone wants something else, I > think we should allow that? The implementation of the automatic lookup is through an indirection and terminus - so you can (theoretically) run with `none` as the back-end, and you can supply your own Ruby code that impl

Re: [Puppet Users] Supported Ruby Versions for Telly

2012-04-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
urce build rather than with an > RPM. > > Please tell me if I understand the versioning requirements: >    I need ruby 1.8.7 or 1.9.3 on the machine acting as Puppet Master. >    The clients/agents can use ruby 1.8.5 for now. That is spot-on. -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer –

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Beginners: New list suggestion?

2012-04-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
nswers either. I would absolutely support getting a new StackExchange site for configuration management or something going. What it really needs is someone to drive that forward - you can't just ask for one, it needs a community. -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.co

Re: [Puppet Users] Cache for the local system while offline

2012-02-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 17:26, Khoury Brazil wrote: > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> >> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 06:12, mukulm wrote: >> > >> > I want to cache the updates for the users system received from the >> > server so th

Re: [Puppet Users] Yaml server facts, weird message: "id00"

2012-02-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
because of exactly this. Sadly, yeah, a change to the underlying implementation presumably led to this greater degree of sharing, which is fine - as long as everyone else uses a full YAML stack to read it. :) > Thank you so much for your help! No worries. -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ P

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Removing the ability to serve symlinks as symlinks from the master...

2012-02-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 06:54, jcbollinger wrote: > On Feb 13, 4:58 pm, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> >> We recently found some issues with the `links => follow` setting in >> recursive file copying; the designed behaviour is that it should allow >> you to determine if

Re: [Puppet Users] Yaml server facts, weird message: "id00"

2012-02-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
gt; "client" server: > puppet: 2.7.10-1 > ruby: 1.8.7.352-4 > RHEL: 6 > > Thank you! > > > -Original Message- From: Daniel Pittman > Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 5:06 PM > To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Yaml serve

Re: [Puppet Users] Undocumented feature: puppet --noop

2012-02-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
the contributing link, but is done by creating a RedMine account at https://projects.puppetlabs.com/ and then hitting the URL https://projects.puppetlabs.com/contributor_licenses/sign to read and sign. It would be awesome if you could submit this as a pull request, but without that it would be

Re: [Puppet Users] puppetd hanging on some nodes

2012-02-14 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 16:28, Gonzalo Servat wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Daniel Pittman > wrote: >> >> Sorry for not getting back to this sooner.  If you are running 2.7.10, >> can you try removing the file >> `puppet/util/instrumentation/listene

Re: [Puppet Users] Yaml server facts, weird message: "id00"

2012-02-14 Thread Daniel Pittman
) information appears. That, though, could be a problem. Are you saying that when you use mcollective it sees `&id001` as the value of that fact? Can you show how you are invoking mcollective, and a demonstration of the output around the problem? Also, which versions of Ruby, and MCollect

Re: [Puppet Users] puppetd hanging on some nodes

2012-02-14 Thread Daniel Pittman
to more aggressive debugging. Would you be comfortable doing some hacking / patching of the code to narrow this down, and/or installing some development tools on one of the nodes that triggers the hang? -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consume

[Puppet Users] Removing the ability to serve symlinks as symlinks from the master...

2012-02-13 Thread Daniel Pittman
ny other "meta issue" around how we are managing this. This is, obviously, a new way to try and figure out what we should do, and we want to make sure that we catch any problems with it early. Thanks. -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 percent

Re: [Puppet Users] How to add Node Description as extra column in table overview

2012-02-09 Thread Daniel Pittman
You could obviously patch Dashboard, which wouldn't be impossibly hard, but it isn't in by default. You could also file a feature request asking that it be added, which helps let the folks working on that product know what you care about. -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Develope

Re: [Puppet Users] Cache for the local system while offline

2012-02-09 Thread Daniel Pittman
seful for testing new configurations, where you want to fix the broken configuration rather than reverting to a known-good one. That should also apply when you can't communicate with the master. -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer e

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Strange behavior by service

2012-02-09 Thread Daniel Pittman
we have a default of `ensure => true` for anything that doesn't explicitly mention the value. For a service that is the equivalent of `ensure => running`, which would explain the behaviour you saw. For most types that is the right thing to do, if the user is trying to manage something

Re: [Puppet Users] Strange behavior by service

2012-02-08 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 16:13, Aaron Grewell wrote: > On 02/08/2012 04:11 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> You can't: if you tell Puppet to ensure the service is running, it >> will try to start it every time it finds it "out of compliance". > > Look at the code.

Re: [Puppet Users] Strange behavior by service

2012-02-08 Thread Daniel Pittman
ng else that is more tolerant or silent. 2. Have an exec that checks those kernel parameters for kdump and automatically reboots. Obviously 2 has ... some risks. :) -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this

Re: [Puppet Users] puppetd hanging on some nodes

2012-02-08 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 14:40, Gonzalo Servat wrote: > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:44 AM, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> RedHat released some update kernels that reintroduced a bug from the >> 2.6.13 Linux kernel.  You can run any of the code in this gist to >> check if your kerne

Re: [Puppet Users] puppetd hanging on some nodes

2012-02-08 Thread Daniel Pittman
s+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are

Re: [Puppet Users] Researching Puppet - Local host variations

2012-02-08 Thread Daniel Pittman
al": source => "puppet:///modules/firewall/rc.firewall.${fqdn}" }` to use a per-host fact to select which configuration file you want. File even supports multiple "sources", and selecting the first one, so you can have it look for a "per host", then "per clas

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Exported resources and inventory service?

2012-02-06 Thread Daniel Pittman
host facts tables in the inventory > database mimic what you end up creating with stored configs? It would > be great if I could just dump the facts stuff out of the inventory db > and bootstrap the stored configs database with it so I don't have the > pain of initial populatio

Re: [Puppet Users] ipv6 address facts

2012-02-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
is is not the case. > > facter-1.6.4-1.el6.noarch on rhel6. > > I'm only few days into ruby, but as I read the code, it should work as I > expect. > > Any ideas why I see what I see? Off-hand, no. Can you file a bug report, including these details, at http://projects.p

Re: [Puppet Users] pip and virtualenv

2012-02-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
options we don't have a good model for this yet. Moving forward would require someone proposing a good change to the model - the package type - that would cleanly map to the required semantics of each of the various implementations of these things. -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer –

Re: [Puppet Users] Exported resources and inventory service?

2012-02-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
duplicating the data at the moment. Hopefully in the Telly timeframe we can have something better, but we don't have a concrete date on the roadmap yet. -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message b

Re: [Puppet Users] Catalog Service

2012-02-02 Thread Daniel Pittman
alog Service Architecture?  I couldn't >> find references to it on this list > > It's rather out of date, and we're going to update/delete that doc to make > it clear. I had a look over it, and while it lives on in the history of the wiki, it is far enough from current

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Is puppet right for us?

2012-01-31 Thread Daniel Pittman
.. >> >> Cheers, >> Brian >> >> P.S. - Another tool to look at, that I have *heard* good things about is >> bcfg2, but it isn't nearly as popular as the others. >> >> -- >> <http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/solution-providers/brandorr/>

Re: [Puppet Users] Conditionally replace in file type

2012-01-30 Thread Daniel Pittman
:else": configpath => "/home/user/foo/bar/johndoe05" } # ...or a define. some::define { "whatever": configpath => "/home/user/foo/bar/johndoe05" } } -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer ele

Re: [Puppet Users] Conditionally replace in file type

2012-01-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
f the file is not present, using whatever source you give, but will not touch the content of an existing file. If you are using a recursive file resource to put the rest of the content in place around this, no problem, because the more specific file resource will override the recursive one, and you

Re: [Puppet Users] Moving to RVM Ruby 1.9 and Puppet

2012-01-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
7 being slow. -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegrou

Re: [Puppet Users] Anyone know a good tool for 'watching' configurations?

2012-01-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
f resources, rather than just "files", so you can monitor, eg, user and service resources. Beyond that, I don't know of anything that works at a higher level that "this file changed" - but I have never really invested much effort in looking. -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet L

Re: [Puppet Users] Set hourly of execution with service puppet

2012-01-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
m/references/stable/configuration.html You can find the appropriate setting, and the rest of our configuration, documented in there. (You want the `runinterval` setting this time. :) -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You re

Re: [Puppet Users] Password not changing during polling event but does using puppetd -vt

2012-01-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
ing replaced. > > Is this expected behaviour that I don't know about? Nope. > Is there a way to put a client puppetd process into debug and > trace so I can see the results? If you run it with `--debug` and `--trace` as a daemon, those log messages will go to syslog like everythin

Re: [Puppet Users] Problem with not installing package, exec do an error

2012-01-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
. At a guess, the `sudo` in the exec is not going to help, but since the agent runs as root you shouldn't have a problem. So, can you try running the `apt-get install libmemcached-dev` package by hand and see what the output is? Paste it into this thread if you can't figure it out direct

Re: [Puppet Users] Unable to install Puppet Enterprise v2.0.0 for RHEL 5-x86_64

2012-01-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:05, Ramesh Kumar wrote: > Unable to install Puppet Enterprise v2.0.0 for RHEL 5-x86_64. You are likely to get better responses over on the PE users mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/puppet-users -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – h

Re: [Puppet Users] arrays after upgrade to 2.7 and ['A','B'] compared to 'A B'?

2012-01-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
; everything is rhel6 defaults so ruby 1.8.7 and facter 1.6.5 Hrm. Looks like that might be a bug. Can you file tickets reflecting the different issues you are hitting? -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You recei

Re: [Puppet Users] Now that we have puppet node install....

2012-01-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
ould suggest, instead, that you either use the OS packages we produce, or roll your own deb or RPM package that you can easily enough track trunk with. -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this messag

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Is it possible to conditionally replace a file ?

2012-01-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
d by puppet. A recursive file resource is "less specific" than a file resource managing an individual file. If you install those two configuration files with `file { ".../no_replace1.cfg": ensure => present, ... }`, Puppet will put them in place if they are missing, but oth

Re: [Puppet Users] My ENC won't work, YAML is valid AFAIK

2012-01-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
exec ENC protocol to support that. I would take a patch, but if you just want to file a feature request we will look to this when we next touch that protocol. (Which is probably not that far off, for unrelated reasons.) -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made

Re: [Puppet Users] My ENC won't work, YAML is valid AFAIK

2012-01-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
s" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/VChRtFes9wEJ. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com

Re: [Puppet Users] scaling projections for dashboard database?

2012-01-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 14:55, Jo Rhett wrote: > Sorry for the long delay, had my head down on some other issues. Reply > below. > > On Jan 10, 2012, at 10:55 AM, Daniel Pittman wrote: > >> Yes.  It sounds like the current storage of reports isn't going to >> wo

Re: [Puppet Users] more fun and games...(exported resources)

2012-01-18 Thread Daniel Pittman
the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.googl

Re: [Puppet Users] ignoring a service that doesn't exist

2012-01-17 Thread Daniel Pittman
would I say "if it's there, disable it, if not, ignore it" in puppet DSL? exec { "damn!": … } Sadly, there isn't any way to express this in the DSL. I suspect there might be a feature request already, but I can't find one, so can you file one? This seems like a u

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet capacity with apache+passenger, server saturated

2012-01-12 Thread Daniel Pittman
heir consumption noticeably. FWIW, the `puppetcommander` feature that MCollective supports is an awesome way to do this - it gives you a central point responsible for making sure that load is spread about your network as efficiently as possible. -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://pup

Re: [Puppet Users] Stupid Exec

2012-01-12 Thread Daniel Pittman
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Re: [Puppet Users] scaling projections for dashboard database?

2012-01-10 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 20:06, Jo Rhett wrote: >> On Jan 9, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> >>> Is there any reasonable estimate for what amount of space you expect one >>> system to use?  I realize this likely varies with the report size, but the >&g

Re: [Puppet Users] hiera-puppet in template

2012-01-10 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 08:56, Dan Bode wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Markus Falb wrote: >> >> hiera is working in my manifest but not within a template. >> >> x=<%= scope.function_hiera("x") %> >> >> err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: >> Failed t

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Triage-A-Thon

2012-01-10 Thread Daniel Pittman
Those are high priority for the platform team anyhow, but if there is something you feel we have missed shoot me an email with the ticket number and I will try and get it bumped up in priority. Daniel On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:06, Brian Gallew wrote: > Does this mean that the tickets which are

Re: [Puppet Users] scaling projections for dashboard database?

2012-01-09 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 14:47, Jo Rhett wrote: > On Jan 9, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Stefan Heijmans wrote: > > Op maandag 9 januari 2012 19:40:00 UTC+1 schreef Jo het volgende: >> >> 2. Are there some database cleanup scripts which I have managed to >> overlook that need to be run? > > > have you tried th

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Dashboard: db:migrate failure (1.2.2 to 1.2.4)

2012-01-04 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 18:31, Russell Van Tassell wrote: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 16:01, Russell Van Tassell >> wrote: >> >> > For completeness sake, the subsequent error (with trace) is thus... I >

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Dashboard: db:migrate failure (1.2.2 to 1.2.4)

2012-01-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 16:01, Russell Van Tassell wrote: > For completeness sake, the subsequent error (with trace) is thus... I think > at this point, I'm likely stuck -- at least short of wiping the DB and > starting over, fresh (which I'd prefer to not do). Both of those look like MySQL level

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Dashboard: db:migrate failure (1.2.2 to 1.2.4)

2012-01-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 14:52, Russell Van Tassell wrote: > An error I managed to hit today, trying to migrate puppet dashboard from > 1.2.2 to 1.2.4 (after upgrading the master to puppet 2.7.9 seemed to prevent > the dashboard from importing new reports).  I'm trying to re-run it now, but > as you

[Puppet Users] Changing of the guard: Puppet Labs Open Source team changes...

2012-01-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
G'day. A little over six months ago Jacob Helwig posted about the formation of the Puppet Labs "open source" team, focused on the needs of the community and on making the FOSS version of Puppet completely awesome. Since then he has led that team to great success, and significantly improved our pr

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet & symlink

2012-01-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 08:32, Len Rugen wrote: > We have a case where we've been requested to create an extra symlink.  The > system provides libsomething.so.0.vv.rr and a symlink of libsomething.so.0. > We need create a symlink libsomething.so (without the .0).  I'm afraid > maintenance may chan

Re: [Puppet Users] External nodes in different dirs.

2012-01-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 00:01, Douglas Garstang wrote: > On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Aaron Grewell > wrote: >> Well isn't that handy! > > Yeah that's great except that these YAML files are littered with > Ruby objects which makes them pretty much impossible to reach with any > other pro

Re: [Puppet Users] Might someone out there repair some busted links ?

2011-12-29 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:14, Dan White wrote: > Lots of the links on this page: > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Patterns > are busted. > > one specific example: > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/Recipes/Tripwire > > "The page you were trying to access doesn't ex

Re: [Puppet Users] user provider for AIX run error

2011-12-29 Thread Daniel Pittman
Hi. Can you file this as a bug at http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/issues/new please? Daniel On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 06:48, Alpha wrote: > run “puppet resource user” got the error blew, I tested at AIX 5.3 and AIX > 6.1 ruby 1.8.7 puppet 2.7.9 > /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/p

Re: [Puppet Users] Can Puppet be configured to one-time deployment for modules?

2011-12-20 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 08:49, Swampcritter wrote: > We are developing in-house RHEL VM provisioning (similar to Satellite/ > Spacewalk) along with a customized kickstart template, but also > including Puppet to handle the actual configuration of the > environment. One thing we need to see is doe

Re: [Puppet Users] Dependencies across different nodes - possible?

2011-12-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 07:22, Malte Janduda wrote: > is there a possibility to define dependencies across multiple nodes? Not at this point in time, no, although Luke had a prototype of a "stop and wait" resource ages ago that handled this. We have it on our roadmap, but the problem is surpris

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet with Ruby1.9 issue

2011-12-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 02:33, linuxbsdfreak wrote: Hey there. > I have a running puppetmaster with nginx and passenger and ruby 1.9.2. I see something odd here - 1.9.2 in the line above, and ... > When i do puppet cert --trace --list . i get the following error. > > /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.9.1

Re: [Puppet Users] time issue with puppet

2011-12-14 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 16:00, Corey Osman wrote: > I have the following manifest that basically syncs the time for nodes really > out of sync and ntpd can't drift the time back fast enough. > > The problem is that when puppet executes the catalog,  and puppet changes the > time, puppet never f

[Puppet Users] Re: [Puppet-dev] Puppet integration with SecretServer (Thycotic)

2011-12-14 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 18:47, Steve Shipway wrote: G'day Steve. > I've done some more development on my Puppet module that handles password > integration with Secret Server from Thycotic, and now it handles > certificates as well. That is pretty darn awesome - lots of people out there want som

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: explicit class dependencies

2011-12-13 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 04:29, Felix Frank wrote: > On 12/08/2011 04:44 PM, jcbollinger wrote: > >> I would suggest, however, that >> you consider filing issue tickets against the documentation for some >> or all of your complaints.  The sqeaky wheel gets the grease, and >> formal issue tickets sq

Re: [Puppet Users] Is there a way to push/copy a file from client to master ?

2011-12-13 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 05:11, Dan White wrote: > I am dealing with SSL certificates for secure rsyslog that need to be created > on each machine and then collected onto the logging server. > Getting a file from puppetmaster to client is trivial, but how do I reverse > the process ? Use a cust

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet 2.7.9 not working at CentOS 6 with Passenger

2011-12-12 Thread Daniel Pittman
G'day. I can't be sure this is your problem, but one difference between the 2.6 series and the 2.7 series is that we changed the master/agent interaction to use POST rather than GET for facts. Specifically, we changed that because once you get too many bytes of facts we would get a message that l

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: how to link items together -- all happen together?

2011-12-12 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 22:20, Jo Rhett wrote: >> On Dec 8, 1:07 pm, Jo Rhett wrote: >>> I've found some problems due to the extremely random ordering puppet does.   >>> It is necessary for some of these items to all happen together, with no >>> other random resources executed in between. > > On

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Is puppet right for us?

2011-12-09 Thread Daniel Pittman
m with. > > On Dec 9, 3:33 am, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> I would totally recommend Puppet Commander in place of that, if you >> have the time to get it running: >> >> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/mcollective-plugins/wiki/Tool... >> >> It uses mcol

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Is puppet right for us?

2011-12-08 Thread Daniel Pittman
t;> >> Puppet/Chef/CFengine, or just a little?  Are you planning on writing a >> >> bunch of custom modules, or relying on the community?  What languages >> >> does >> >> your team work on primarily?  For example, folks that work with Ruby a >

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Is puppet right for us?

2011-12-08 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 12:59, Luke wrote: > This tool will be used by primarily system admins to automate server > builds app installs, configurations etc. The devs will use it in their > own environment to help automate some of their tasks. I don't think we > have too much Ruby expertise since w

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Is puppet right for us?

2011-12-08 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:36, Luke wrote: > I am having difficulty choosing between CFengine, Chef and puppet. > Which one would suit us the best as a small web app startup with heavy > reliance on mysql/tomcat/nagios.We are entirely virtualized with ESX, > want to be scalable and want a product

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: what is "private method `split' called for nil:NilClass" error??

2011-12-07 Thread Daniel Pittman
...and to close that loop: in Ruby, '$c_repo' is a global variable. Because nothing will ever have assigned it, you called the `split` method on the default value, `nil`, which raised that error. Puppet then reported it. :) Daniel On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:17, Sans wrote: > thanks Felix! that's

Re: [Puppet Users] Profiling Puppet?

2011-11-29 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 15:13, Justin Lloyd wrote: > Cool, nice to know about the evaltrace option. Interestingly, in the ~1000 > lines of output from "puppetd -t --evaltrace", all are < 1 second and all > but about 10 are < 0.1 seconds. The total evaluation time is about 5 seconds > with the othe

Re: [Puppet Users] Is it possible to conditionally replace a file ?

2011-11-29 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 04:07, Martin Alfke wrote: > On 28.11.2011, at 19:18, Stefan Schulte wrote: >>> [...] > >>> Thanks for responding. >>> I agree, globally customizing the defaults is one way to go, but I am >>> shooting for the second option. >>> >> >> If you do not want the gobal defaults

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