[Puppet Users] Re: Puppetmaster and clients running really slow

2008-10-10 Thread Aj
Are you using Webrick? If so, use Mongrel! There's a wiki page on it (UsingMongrel iirc). I'd recommend nginx as your proxy loadbalancer. On 11/10/2008, at 12:3 AM, "Kenneth Holter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello list. > > > We're running puppet version 0.24.4, and are having trouble

[Puppet Users] Variable substitution problem

2008-10-10 Thread Sébastien Prud'homme
Hi, I m' trying to do something like this in Puppet (my version is 0.23.0) : $myprefix = "myvalue" file { "/my/file": group => "$myprefix_group", } Unfortunately Puppet replaces "$myprefix_group" by "" instead of "myvalue_group". If i use a "." separator instead of "_", the substitutio

[Puppet Users] Re: Help with type development (was Re: Creating a bunch of types to manage cobbler)

2008-10-10 Thread Sven Mueller
Sven Mueller wrote: I really hate replying to myself when i don't actually have anything to add. But I'm still at a loss about the solution to the problems below. Can't anyone help? Regards, Sven > I tried writing a type to handle a cobbler repository (because it is the > first thing cobbler wa

[Puppet Users] Puppetmaster and clients running really slow

2008-10-10 Thread Kenneth Holter
Hello list. We're running puppet version 0.24.4, and are having trouble with puppetmaster running really slow. The puppetmaster has been running fine until about a couple of day ago, and for no apparent reason it just lost performance. I've also noticed that the puppet daemon on many of our clien

[Puppet Users] Re: Inheritance syntax question

2008-10-10 Thread dd-b
On Oct 9, 2:03 am, Peter Meier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>   Foo::bar["default"] { > >>> [...] > >>> The only way I can get this syntax to work is to move the 'bar' > >>> definition outside of the foo class and refer to it by a name without > >>> '::' in it in foo2.  Is there a way to overri

[Puppet Users] Re: Include class/* picks up backup files

2008-10-10 Thread dd-b
On Oct 9, 2:06 am, Peter Meier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > >>> All the examples show just "include class/*", so I was using that > >>> until I started getting errors. > >> I'm curious which examples these are.  Best practice is usually to let > >> autoloading take care of loading class pp

[Puppet Users] Re: puppetmaster crash after upgrade to 0.24.5

2008-10-10 Thread Mark D. Nagel
Peter Meier wrote: >> Or manually build a newer ruby RPM ala >> http://sipx-wiki.calivia.com/index.php/Building_ruby-1.8.4_and_ruby-gems? >> > > > i'm using the http://rubyworks.rubyforge.org/ rpm's without any problem. > however only on centos 5. I ended up using the FC5 SRPM as described a

[Puppet Users] Re: Variable substitution problem

2008-10-10 Thread Mike Pountney
Try "${myprefix}_group" On 10 Oct 2008, at 13:40, Sébastien Prud'homme wrote: > > Hi, > > I m' trying to do something like this in Puppet (my version is > 0.23.0) : > > $myprefix = "myvalue" > > file { "/my/file": > group => "$myprefix_group", > } > > Unfortunately Puppet replaces "$myp

[Puppet Users] puppet, facter and using non-scalar values

2008-10-10 Thread Simon J Mudd
Hello all, I've been using puppet for a while now and have an issue I've not seen clearly answered. One of the issues I want to address in puppet is to manage LVM, the volume groups and logical volumes on a series of servers. Starting from a small base configuration I would like to configure th

[Puppet Users] puppetmaster hostname sniffing on startup

2008-10-10 Thread Rob McBroom
Hello. I'm using the standard puppetmaster package under Debian etch (which seems to be 0.20.1). I'm wondering if the behavior I'm seeing is standard for puppetmaster, or if it's specific to the Debian package (so I know who to complain to). The problem is that puppetmaster uses a cert based on t

[Puppet Users] Re: Inheritance syntax question

2008-10-10 Thread Peter Meier
Hi > In general, I find what's most missing from documentation these days > is the explanation of the philosophical underpinnings of a design -- > to me, that's the "how do the developers think about this?" question, > and that's what I most need to have explained to me to start making > sense of

[Puppet Users] Re: puppetmaster hostname sniffing on startup

2008-10-10 Thread Peter Meier
Hi > Hello. I'm using the standard puppetmaster package under Debian etch > (which seems to be 0.20.1). I'm wondering if the behavior I'm seeing > is standard for puppetmaster, or if it's specific to the Debian > package (so I know who to complain to). > > The problem is that puppetmaster uses a

[Puppet Users] Re: Variable substitution problem

2008-10-10 Thread Sébastien Prud'homme
Ok i'll try that next monday. Thanks 2008/10/10 Mike Pountney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Try "${myprefix}_group" > > On 10 Oct 2008, at 13:40, Sébastien Prud'homme wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> I m' trying to do something like this in Puppet (my version is >> 0.23.0) : >> >> $myprefix = "myvalue" >>

[Puppet Users] autosign issues

2008-10-10 Thread zoniguana
Hi folks Back again with another head-scratcher... I'm trying to get autosigning to work, and am partially succeeding, but not really... Running puppet v24.4, and not yet ready to upgrade unless I have to On puppetmaster, I have autosign.conf (and puppet.conf indicates autosign = /etc/puppet/au

[Puppet Users] Re: Inheritance syntax question

2008-10-10 Thread dd-b
On Oct 10, 12:27 pm, Peter Meier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > > In general, I find what's most missing from documentation these days > > is the explanation of the philosophical underpinnings of a design -- > > to me, that's the "how do the developers think about this?" question, > > and tha

[Puppet Users] User provider on RHEL4 and RHEL5 breaks with latest fastrack update

2008-10-10 Thread Matt Hyclak
I just wanted to throw this out there to see if it's a known issue or not. We have a manifest that looks like: class auth-OIT-Security { group { 'OIT-Security' : ensure => present, gid => 5003; } user { 'smith' : ensure => present, uid => 119, gid => 5