[Puppet Users] Re: apt.puppetlabs.com to slow

2013-12-11 Thread Russell Jackson
I've been constantly seeing errors from apt-get update being unable to connect to apt.puppetlabs.com for months. It is very confusing because apt tries the ipv4 address first. It times out. Then, it tries the ipv6 address which for must of us results in a network unreachable; however, it doesn'

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Freebsd + Puppet 3.2.2 pkg_add -f ?

2013-08-26 Thread Russell Jackson
> the > > patch. > > > > 2) If the freebsd provider is broken, seems like it should be going back > > upstream rather than patching in the port (forgive my ignorance if this > is > > in fact happening and the patch is interim). > > > > Eric

[Puppet Users] Re: Freebsd + Puppet 3.2.2 pkg_add -f ?

2013-08-12 Thread Russell Jackson
The standard provider doesn't work with packages that have multiple origins (the apache ports for instance) because the package name doesn't match was is recorded in the package database. So, what will happen is that puppet will think the package isn't installed on every run and attempt to insta

Re: [Puppet Users] Announcing Razor

2012-05-23 Thread Russell Jackson
On 05/23/2012 05:10 PM, James Turnbull wrote: Puppet Labs is really thrilled to announce, in conjunction with EMC, our new open source bare metal provisioning tool: Razor. Razor is next generation provisioning software that handles bare metal hardware and virtual server provisioning with invento

Re: [Puppet Users] Dashboard Delayed Workers Error: Mysql::Error: MySQL server has gone away

2011-08-05 Thread Russell Jackson
On 08/05/2011 02:59 AM, dave-stfu wrote: Hello Recently, I've upgraded the Dashboard from 1.2rc3 to 1.2rc5. Now, the delayed workers are dying right after I start them. The production.log says: Delayed::Backend::ActiveRecord::Job Update (0.0ms) Mysql::Error: MySQL server has gone away: UPDATE

Re: [Puppet Users] PC EU feedback: exported resource syntax is too magical, hard to read

2011-05-20 Thread Russell Jackson
On 05/20/2011 01:24 PM, Randall Hansen wrote: > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7612 > > The exported resources syntax: > > @@user { luke: ensure => present } > > Is concise and powerful, but very difficult to read. We should > consider word-based syntax, e.g.: > > export @user {

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Dashboard on Freebsd 8.2

2011-05-13 Thread Russell Jackson
On 05/12/2011 07:37 PM, Panaman wrote: > Is anyone running the puppet dashboard on freebsd 8.2 > I am kinda a newb to freebsd but managed to get puppet installed with > apache and mysql. But I haven't actually figured out how to get the > dashboard to install. > I have it running on FreeBSD 8.x.

Re: [Puppet Users] Git Workflow

2011-05-03 Thread Russell Jackson
On 05/03/2011 09:16 AM, Stefan Schulte wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know how your workflow looks like when you're writing > manifests. Currently we have the following construct: > > * 1 git repository with all modules > * 3 git branches: dev, staging, prod > * 3 puppet environments: dev, stag

Re: [Puppet Users] Installing port on FreeBSD

2011-04-21 Thread Russell Jackson
On 04/21/2011 11:05 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Russell Jackson wrote: > >> The ports provider doesn't work due to bugs in portupgrade when run >> without a controlling tty. I opened a problem report about this sometime >> ago

Re: [Puppet Users] Installing port on FreeBSD

2011-04-21 Thread Russell Jackson
On 04/20/2011 02:45 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:26 PM, fafaforza wrote: >> New user trying to get a port to compile: I tried searching but all I >> get are links to the FreeBSD port of puppet. Easier to find a needle >> in a haystack. >> >> A class has: >> >> exec { "por

Re: [Puppet Users] provisioning bare metal (best practices)

2011-02-22 Thread Russell Jackson
On 02/22/2011 10:14 AM, James A. Peltier wrote: > > > - Original Message - | I thought about DHCP for static > addresses. I'd need the MAC for each | machine > > This is not necessarily true. If you configure the client to send a > requested hostname it will not require you to register

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet on a purely push basis no possible?

2011-02-18 Thread Russell Jackson
On 02/18/2011 11:32 AM, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:16, Russell Jackson wrote: >> On 02/15/2011 05:37 PM, James Louis wrote: >> >>> in spite of this not actually being a "push" mechanism if it walks like >>> a duck. it woul

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet on a purely push basis no possible?

2011-02-17 Thread Russell Jackson
On 02/15/2011 05:37 PM, James Louis wrote: > in spite of this not actually being a "push" mechanism if it walks like > a duck. it would be nice if the documentation and previous discussions > on this were more clear or even better if it's not a "push" then the it > should be "redefined" within pupp

Re: [Puppet Users] freebsd rc.conf type - looking for beta testers

2011-02-08 Thread Russell Jackson
On 02/07/2011 09:30 AM, Ross W wrote: > While working on a bunch of freebsd servers, one feature that I found > lacking was the ability to nicely modify rc.conf variables (eg: > item_flags="--something") for installed ports/applications and have a > service do dependency checking so it restarts if

Re: [Puppet Users] Can one definition require another definition?

2010-11-16 Thread Russell Jackson
On 11/16/2010 11:33 AM, Nan Liu wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Yushu Yao wrote: Hi Experts, I am in a situation that need one definition to require another (to enforce execution order). E.g. define a(x,y,z) { do task 1 } define b(u,v,w) { so task 2 } To use them: Below won't make

Re: [Puppet Users] Can one definition require another definition?

2010-11-16 Thread Russell Jackson
On 11/16/2010 11:21 AM, Yushu Yao wrote: Hi Experts, *The question is: Won't it help if Puppet support require=>Definition["inst_a"] directly?* Or am I missing some important issues? Defines are macros. The macro itself doesn't exist in the catalog; only the generated resources do. -- R

Re: [Puppet Users] FreeBSD puppetd CSRs being ignored by puppetmaster

2010-10-22 Thread Russell Jackson
On 10/21/2010 03:01 AM, sasepp wrote: Hi, I'm trying to deploy puppetd 0.25.4 (from ports) on two servers running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE. Are you sure you installed this from ports? Ports currently has version 2.6.2. -- Russell A. Jackson Network Analyst California State Univer

Re: [Puppet Users] Disabling Puppet

2010-10-21 Thread Russell Jackson
On 10/21/2010 02:56 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Patrick wrote: On Oct 21, 2010, at 2:30 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: Having some issues disabling puppet. I want to use scripts to update RPM's, and obviously you need to quiesce puppet first. The pid file di

Re: [Puppet Users] First boot with Puppet

2010-10-14 Thread Russell Jackson
On 10/14/2010 03:49 PM, Michal Ludvig wrote: On 10/15/2010 08:36 AM, Arnau Bria wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:47:16 +1300 Michal Ludvig wrote 1) kickstart installs the system, including puppet from our local repo 2) after reboot I have to login and set the hostname and IP kickstart is able to

Re: [Puppet Users] Installing MySQL on FreeBSD

2010-10-07 Thread Russell Jackson
On 10/07/2010 10:43 AM, Ross W wrote: Sorry to get this way late, but I've got a solution for you if you haven't found it already. So I'm putting this into the archives. On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:32 AM, FreddieB wrote: Hi everyone, I have an interesting problem I think. I'm trying to insta

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: FreeBSD Puppet 2.6.1 odd core-dump

2010-09-26 Thread Russell Jackson
On 09/21/2010 12:47 PM, FreddieB wrote: Splendid! The time was off by months. Apparently FreeBSD's ntpd doesn't handle this to well (it just quits) so an initial "ntpdate -b" got it back on track, and after that both nptd and puppet works fine. I've always set my machines to boot with ntpdate_

Re: [Puppet Users] Problems when puppet runs on freebsd

2010-09-14 Thread Russell Jackson
On 09/14/2010 01:00 AM, daniel wrote: >Hey guys! I have hundreds of freebsd servers to manage, so i try to > deploy puppet on my servers. The version of puppet client i used is > 0.25.4 , while puppetmaster uses the same version , which is a debian > system. The problems i encountered are as

Re: [Puppet Users] Installing MySQL on FreeBSD

2010-09-13 Thread Russell Jackson
On 09/13/2010 11:26 AM, Russell Jackson wrote: > On 09/13/2010 09:59 AM, Russell Jackson wrote: >> On 09/12/2010 07:32 AM, FreddieB wrote: >>> I looks like Puppet is not able to figure out that MySQL 5.1 is >>> already installed. If I list the packages installed (with

Re: [Puppet Users] Installing MySQL on FreeBSD

2010-09-13 Thread Russell Jackson
On 09/13/2010 09:59 AM, Russell Jackson wrote: > On 09/12/2010 07:32 AM, FreddieB wrote: >> I looks like Puppet is not able to figure out that MySQL 5.1 is >> already installed. If I list the packages installed (with pkg_info) I >> find MySQL there but it's not called &

Re: [Puppet Users] Installing MySQL on FreeBSD

2010-09-13 Thread Russell Jackson
On 09/12/2010 07:32 AM, FreddieB wrote: > I looks like Puppet is not able to figure out that MySQL 5.1 is > already installed. If I list the packages installed (with pkg_info) I > find MySQL there but it's not called "mysql51-server" but "mysql- > server-5.1.48". If I go back to my init.pp and chan

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Installing MySQL on FreeBSD

2010-09-13 Thread Russell Jackson
On 09/12/2010 02:51 PM, FreddieB wrote: > Problem just keep hitting me... > > Can anyone see why this simple script fails: > --- start > class mysql-server { >Package['mysql-server'] -> Service['mysql'] > >package { mysql-server : > name => "mysql-serv

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet 2.6.0 vs apache/mod_passenger

2010-08-02 Thread Russell Jackson
On 08/02/2010 11:46 AM, Thorsten Biel wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Russell Jackson wrote: > >> On 08/02/2010 10:35 AM, Christopher Johnston wrote: >>> Looks good from what I can tell, did you setup the config.ru? >>> >> >>

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet 2.6.0 vs apache/mod_passenger

2010-08-02 Thread Russell Jackson
On 08/02/2010 11:24 AM, Christopher Johnston wrote: > I have not played with 2.6.0 yet, but I do have it working fine with .25 > just fine. > Same here. Worked in 0.25.5. Stopped working 2.6.0. -- Russell A Jackson Network Analyst California State University, Bakersfield -- You received this

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet 2.6.0 vs apache/mod_passenger

2010-08-02 Thread Russell Jackson
On 08/02/2010 10:35 AM, Christopher Johnston wrote: > Looks good from what I can tell, did you setup the config.ru? > Can I take this to mean that you have a working passenger installation of 2.6.0? Knowing that it can work would at least narrow it down to a local installation issue rather than a

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet 2.6.0 vs apache/mod_passenger

2010-08-02 Thread Russell Jackson
On 08/02/2010 10:35 AM, Christopher Johnston wrote: > Looks good from what I can tell, did you setup the config.ru? > Yep. Got the modified one for the puppetmaster -> server class rename. -- Russell A Jackson Network Analyst California State University, Bakersfield -- You received this mess

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet 2.6.0 vs apache/mod_passenger

2010-08-02 Thread Russell Jackson
8.7) ruby-augeas (0.3.0) sources (0.0.2) > > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Russell Jackson wrote: > >> I'm having a hell of a time with mod_passenger. Where would I even begin >> to investigate where this exception is coming from? My configuration >> works

[Puppet Users] puppet 2.6.0 vs apache/mod_passenger

2010-08-02 Thread Russell Jackson
I'm having a hell of a time with mod_passenger. Where would I even begin to investigate where this exception is coming from? My configuration works fine with the 2.6.0 webrick server. > [Thu Jul 29 18:03:00 2010] [error] [client 136.168.1.4] Premature end of > script headers: preamble > [ pid=284

[Puppet Users] sysutils/puppet: disabling freebsd ports package provider

2010-04-06 Thread Russell Jackson
Is there any objection to the ports provider being disabled on FreeBSD systems since it mostly just causes puppet to hang anyway? I've had no luck in fixing it. The problem is that portupgrade and script don't interact well when running non-interactively. I've been running it this way in a loca

[Puppet Users] Re: [Puppet-dev] Puppet Continuous Integration - your help needed

2008-12-05 Thread Russell Jackson
James Turnbull wrote: > Hi all > > We're implementing a Hudson Continuous Integration server for Puppet and > Facter. The CI server will monitor the current development repositories > - currently 0.24.x and master. When new commits are detected it will > run the unit and rspec tests on build sla

[Puppet Users] Re: Have a good workaround for network service on Fedora?

2008-10-17 Thread Russell Jackson
Bryan Kearney wrote: > Has anyone solved status checking for the network service on fedora? > Since it always returns success, using 'hastatus => true' does not work. > We have some recipes that always cause the network service to restart > even when it does not need to. > Override 'pattern'.