[Puppet Users] Using Puppet for updating Ubuntu machines over the network

2009-08-28 Thread E. Andrasi
Hello! I'm new with Puppet and as far as I have searched I couldn't find a very good solution for updating some machines over the network. I could use Puppet to do a cron job for that but I don't have so much control over the updates and I want to have a more flexible option for starting those up

[Puppet Users] Re: User's and managing expired passwords

2009-08-28 Thread Trevor Vaughan
Probably not. In theory, this would actually update the date every time the 'user' type successfully runs. I ended up hacking together my own function that would do what I wanted it to do. Hoping to roll it back into the main user type someday Trevor On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 21:24, Len Rug

[Puppet Users] Re: failure when converting a puppet object from a directory (ensure => directory) to a symlink that points to a directory... (bug?)

2009-08-28 Thread jcbollinger
On Aug 27, 1:54 pm, Elijah Wright wrote: > We're having an odd, sort of interesting issue with one of our puppet file > objects. We've had it in place for several months, and are now trying to > move the content to a directory on another (emptier) filesystem, and make > the old file object a st

[Puppet Users] string downcase or how to use downcase an hostname in puppet?

2009-08-28 Thread Xavier Beaudouin
Hi there. I am trying to fix hostnames in our Redhat distributions. Some of our server has some hostname un uppercase, and I need to change them into lowercase because people that use the server rather like lowercase hostnames... I did some basic work : Template : $ cat /var/puppet/templates/rh

[Puppet Users] Redmine not mailing puppet-bugs?

2009-08-28 Thread Mark Plaksin
It looks like mail is no longer making it the Redmine The most recently puppet-bugs entry for #2511 is from August 24th: http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs/browse_thread/thread/756618094cd4f29e/c9258938336dab7e?lnk=gst&q=2511#c9258938336dab7e But the most recent update to the ticket was a

[Puppet Users] Re: L.A. Puppet Master Needed for Configuration Management Roundtable at the UNIX Users Association of Southern California

2009-08-28 Thread Larry Ludwig
On Aug 28, 2009, at 2:04 AM, Jordan Schwartz wrote: > Pardon the semi-spam, but I am hosting a Configuration Management > Rountable presentation at the UNIX User Association of Southern > California in Los Angeles on the evening of Thurs. Oct. 1st, and we > need someone who can speak to puppet. >

[Puppet Users] Re: Redmine not mailing puppet-bugs?

2009-08-28 Thread Larry Ludwig
I noticed it also... I thought I made a changed to my config and not remembering it. Go back into your config and make sure emailing is re-enabled. I'm not sure if something was changed globally in our redmine config. James any idea? -L -- Larry Ludwig Reductive Labs --~--~-~

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet on SLES

2009-08-28 Thread xero
Hi Jeff, I'm currently setting up my first SLES11 system with a puppetclient on it and I ran over your reply. Are the opensuse repositories basically identical to the SLES repos? Did you run into and problems so far, when using the opensuse repo instead of the SLES package base? Best, Lars O

[Puppet Users] Re: User's and managing expired passwords

2009-08-28 Thread jcbollinger
On Aug 27, 2:05 pm, Kyle Mallory wrote: > We have a policy that requires all user passwords to expire after 90 > days.  We also use puppet for managing all users on our machines.  Our > hope was, when our passwords expire, we could update the puppet > manifest which would propogate to all our s

[Puppet Users] Re: User's and managing expired passwords

2009-08-28 Thread Kyle Mallory
On Aug 28, 8:18 am, jcbollinger wrote: > > It seems a bit strange to me that you are managing users' passwords > for them in the first place.  It is usually users' responsibility to > manage their own passwords.  If you really do want to manage passwords > centrally, however, then why do you need

[Puppet Users] Users without shadow

2009-08-28 Thread Gajillion
All, We use LDAP authentication against Active Directory on our Linux systems. If a user is not in AD, they don't get into authenticated. We remove all AD authenticated user's shadow entry to keep the shadow expirations from interfering with authentication. However, the "user" type in puppet ins

[Puppet Users] Redmine not mailing puppet-bugs?

2009-08-28 Thread Thomas Bellman
Larry Ludwig wrote: > Go back into your config and make sure emailing is re-enabled. I'm > not sure if something was changed globally in our redmine config. > James any idea? The mailings don't go out to the puppet-b...@googlegroups.com mailing list (which I subscribe to). There's nothing

[Puppet Users] Re: Redmine not mailing puppet-bugs?

2009-08-28 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Thomas Bellman wrote: > > Larry Ludwig wrote: > >> Go back into your config and make sure emailing is re-enabled.  I'm >> not sure if something was changed globally in our redmine config. >> James any idea? > > The mailings don't go out to the puppet-b...@googlegro

[Puppet Users] Re: Exported Resources: noob help please!

2009-08-28 Thread Oded
Great ,thanks. Oded On Aug 27, 5:05 pm, David Schmitt wrote: > Odedwrote: > > David,how does the code you provided handle the removal of a "source" > > node ? as far as i can tell the directory that contains the > > concatenated_file_parts  doesn't get purged on each puppet > > iteration.so eve

[Puppet Users] Re: User's and managing expired passwords

2009-08-28 Thread Adam Crews
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Kyle Mallory wrote: > > On Aug 28, 8:18 am, jcbollinger wrote: >> >> It seems a bit strange to me that you are managing users' passwords >> for them in the first place.  It is usually users' responsibility to >> manage their own passwords.  If you really do want t

[Puppet Users] installing different versions of packages (APT)

2009-08-28 Thread ELTigre
I have debian lenny puppet clients who use two repositories of packages, the main from debian OS, and another with some new deb files. The problem? I have two versions of the same package, for example: collectd-4.4.2 from debian formally repository and collectd-4-7.2 from the other repository (

[Puppet Users] Re: installing different versions of packages (APT)

2009-08-28 Thread Eric Heydrick
Use ensure => latest to install the newest version. Use ensure => "version", e.g. ensure => "4-7.2", to install a specific version of a package. See http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/TypeReference#id374 for details. -Eric On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, ELTigre wrote: > > I have debian lenny

[Puppet Users] Host type usage

2009-08-28 Thread swygue
I trying to get puppet to add an entry to /etc/hosts, but I can't get it to work. I have a class file host.pp with the following content: class host { host { "${fqdn}": ensure => present, ip => $ipaddress, alias => ["$fqdn", "$hostname"

[Puppet Users] Re: Redmine not mailing puppet-bugs?

2009-08-28 Thread Sam Rowe
Doh disregard my post to -dev about this. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send

[Puppet Users] Re: Variables redefine

2009-08-28 Thread Evan Hisey
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Thomas Bellman wrote: > > Evan Hisey wrote: > I think you should have class myclass ($passwd = "111") {     file {" >>> this syntax is completely new to me, where is it documented? >>> > http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/LanguageTut