RE: [Puppet Users] puppet client could not request certificate: Error 500 on SERVER

2012-08-20 Thread Mark Christian
Have you confirmed that puppet master is running as user = puppet? On the master check: puppet --genconfig|grep user Mark From: puppet-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:puppet-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jo Rhett Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 1:03 PM To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com Subj

RE: [Puppet Users] newish puppet on RHEL4 and/or SLES9?

2012-08-15 Thread Mark Christian
I'm not running newish puppet on rhel/cent 4, but the 0.25.6 EPEL packages seem to work well enough with my puppet master that runs 2.7.18. -Original Message- From: puppet-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:puppet-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jason Antman Sent: Wednesday, August 15,

RE: [Puppet Users] Concat module

2011-11-03 Thread Mark Christian
Can't speak to concat, but you might consider using augeas for managing /etc/sysctl.conf. There is an excellent example of this at: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Puppet_Augeas , see "Working Examples" > -Original Message- > From: puppet-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:p

[Puppet Users] Re: I managed to break my Cent5 mongrel puppetmaster after upgrading from EPEL .25.5 to 2.6.6

2011-10-13 Thread Mark Christian
I removed the rubygem-mongrel rpm and reinstalled it. That appears to have fixed my issue. On Oct 13, 6:22 pm, Mark Christian wrote: > CentOS release 5.7 (Final) > puppet-server-2.6.6-1.el5.noarch > ruby-1.8.5-19.el5_6.1.x86_64 > rake, version 0.9.2 > > The upgrade from 25.5

[Puppet Users] I managed to break my Cent5 mongrel puppetmaster after upgrading from EPEL .25.5 to 2.6.6

2011-10-13 Thread Mark Christian
CentOS release 5.7 (Final) puppet-server-2.6.6-1.el5.noarch ruby-1.8.5-19.el5_6.1.x86_64 rake, version 0.9.2 The upgrade from 25.5 to 2.6.6 had been working fine. Not sure if this is relevant: I then attempted to get puppet-dashboard working using this guide: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/in

[Puppet Users] Re: Upgraded puppet-server from EPEL 24.8 to 25.1 - now seeing "puppetmasterd[xxxx]: Too many connections"

2010-03-08 Thread Mark Christian
onfiguration allows me to quickly comment out modules for my nodes. Mark On Mar 8, 1:55 am, Matt wrote: > Out of interest Mark, how did you go about disabling all modules bar puppet? > > Matt > > On 8 March 2010 02:07, Mark Christian wrote: > > > Thanks for the suggestion.  I&#

[Puppet Users] Re: Upgraded puppet-server from EPEL 24.8 to 25.1 - now seeing "puppetmasterd[xxxx]: Too many connections"

2010-03-07 Thread Mark Christian
error in > relationship to activerecord versions (and the lack of mysql gem existence). > > In general, I would expect the load on your mongrels to be lower than > 0.24.x > cheers, > Ohad > > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Mark Christian wrote: > > I have updated the 11

[Puppet Users] Upgraded puppet-server from EPEL 24.8 to 25.1 - now seeing "puppetmasterd[xxxx]: Too many connections"

2010-03-07 Thread Mark Christian
I have updated the 1100 clients that prior to the update used to connect to the master just fine. Now after about 30 minutes of running, puppetmasterd starts to complain "puppetmasterd[6875]: Too many connections", and from that point forward will stop compiling catalogs. Puppetmaster is configur

[Puppet Users] Re: SSL Makes My Brain Bleed

2009-11-18 Thread Mark Christian
I am keen to get this to work, but can't seem to. Will this work with Mongrel and Apache as described at http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/UsingMongrel ? Im using the EPEL puppet package versions 24.8-4 and simply can't get the client to retrieve the catalog from the "Development" server

[Puppet Users] Re: is it possible to pass a node variable to file source in a class?

2009-09-15 Thread Mark Christian
> then in your manifest: > > file { "/etc/ntp.conf": >   content => template("ntp/ntp.conf.erb"), > > } > > This way you have only one file to edit to change site-specific setings. > > In our environment we have a function in site.pp that determine

[Puppet Users] Re: is it possible to pass a node variable to file source in a class?

2009-09-15 Thread Mark Christian
Service[ntpd], require => Package["ntp"], } I was just hoping I could use this instead: source => "puppet:///ntp/$site/ntp.conf" On Sep 15, 12:45 pm, Silviu Paragina wrote: > I thinks you are in the case explained > herehttp://reductivelabs.com/tra

[Puppet Users] is it possible to pass a node variable to file source in a class?

2009-09-15 Thread Mark Christian
say I have a couple nodes: node 'uk-host' inherits basenode { $site = "UK" } node 'ap-host' inherits basenode { $site = "AP" } Is it possible to pass the $site variable to the file resource source parameter?: class ntp { package { ntp: ensure => installed } file { "/etc/ntp.co

[Puppet Users] snmpd v3 class help - need to stop service before copying file and then restart

2009-09-11 Thread Mark Christian
The problem I have is that I need to ensure that snmpd is stopped before attempting to copy /var/net-snmp/snmpd.conf (snmpd credentials file that gets corrupted if copied while snmpd is running). Any suggestions on how best to proceed? # what I have so far. class snmpd { package { net-snmp

[Puppet Users] need assistance with autofs5 reload across rhel5/rhel4 hosts

2009-09-10 Thread Mark Christian
I’m trying to manage autofs5 on RHEL4 and RHEL5 hosts and would like to reload /etc/auto.master rather than restart. The following class errors out with “Could not retrieve catalog: Syntax error at '.'; expected '}' at /etc/puppet/modules/autofs/ manifests/init.pp:4 on node somenode” when I attem