[Puppet Users] All Hosts Shown as Unresponsive. Worker Restart Fails. Clients Seem Happy?

2012-12-11 Thread Dave Mankoff
[On my dev server] For the past 3 days, my puppet master has shown all of the hosts as unresponsive. However, when I log into one of the hosts and run "puppet agent --test" everything seems to run without complaint. Meanwhile the master shows an ever increasing number of pending tasks. When I t

Re: [Puppet Users] Have Class Only Perform Actions When There Is Work To Do (i.e. Making Them Idempotent)

2012-10-26 Thread Dave Mankoff
On Friday, October 26, 2012 2:31:56 PM UTC-4, Tim Mooney wrote: > > In regard to: [Puppet Users] Have Class Only Perform Actions When There > Is...: > > I would highly recommend you just package your custom python and install > it using a package management system, rather than doing what you'r

[Puppet Users] Re: Have Class Only Perform Actions When There Is Work To Do (i.e. Making Them Idempotent)

2012-10-26 Thread Dave Mankoff
Yeah, the wget seems to be working. The archive library I am using is: http://forge.puppetlabs.com/bobsh/archive It runs irrespective of whether or not wget actually fetches anything, however. At this point, it seems that the exec type is the only thing that can actually conditionally run (unl

[Puppet Users] Have Class Only Perform Actions When There Is Work To Do (i.e. Making Them Idempotent)

2012-10-26 Thread Dave Mankoff
Howdy. I feel like I am missing something really simply with regards to the way that Puppet works and I am wondering if someone can point me in the write direction. I have written a class that downloads, uncompresses, compiles, and installs Python from source. So far so good. The problem is tha