[Puppet Users] Multiple sources for puppet configuration?

2013-04-02 Thread Thomas A. Fine
Hi, As we gradually spread puppet management to all of our systems, we've run across a group that's managed by us, but also semi-self-managed, and they'd set up puppet to manage some of their own software configurations (they provide an outward facing archive service). Is there a way to set

[Puppet Users] Create a dependency on a NIS database

2012-12-04 Thread Thomas A. Fine
Hi, I have a command that I want to run when certain other puppet-controlled files change, which is no problem. But I also want the program to run if a certain NIS database changes. I don't see anything built in to talk to talk to a NIS (or LDAP or AD) server. And most importantly I don't

Re: [Puppet Users] coping linked files problem

2012-05-03 Thread Thomas A. Fine
It looks like you should be able to do something like this: $linkvalue = generate('/usr/bin/readlink', '/somepath/current'); $linkbasename = generate('/usr/bin/basename', $linkvalue); and then path -> "destinationpath/$linkbasename", tom On 5/3/12 2:03 PM, rjl wrote: Hi, It seems like

[Puppet Users] Module organization

2012-05-03 Thread Thomas A. Fine
Hi, I'm new to Puppet, and I'm trying to wrap my head around how I should organize things. It seems pretty clear that the intent is to organize things around functional facilities, like ntp, printing, name resolution, etc. But my original inclination was to organize things more organization