[Puppet Users] Re: certificate signing error on debian

2009-04-02 Thread Scott Frazer
On Apr 1, 5:26 pm, Scott Frazer wrote: > I'd love to know myself.  All I know is that I spent a weekend trying > to figure out why my new installs were constantly generating 500 > messages.  Then I discovered that Ubuntu also broke apt-get in such a > way as to prevent it from

[Puppet Users] Re: certificate signing error on debian

2009-04-01 Thread Scott Frazer
On Apr 1, 4:37 pm, James Turnbull wrote: > Scott Frazer wrote: > > I saw something similar when I tried to preseed the installation of > > puppet using "d-i pkgsel/include string puppet" > > > The preseed installation used different directory paths than the &quo

[Puppet Users] Re: certificate signing error on debian

2009-04-01 Thread Scott Frazer
On Mar 31, 1:43 pm, Trevor Price wrote: > as it turns out the timzones were different.  However , now in > /var/log/syslog I get > Mar 31 18:39:56 debain_client_host puppetd[19020]: Calling puppetca.getcert > Mar 31 18:39:57 debian_client_host puppetd[19020]: Could not request > certificate: Cert

[Puppet Users] Help with moving ssh keys around

2009-03-28 Thread Scott Frazer
I'm very new at puppet, but I've almost managed to get to the point where my puppet server sets up all the basics of a new linux box for me. The last piece of the puzzle is backups. The way I do backups is fairly simplistic. I just use mysqldump and tar to create local backup files and then scp