Re: [Puppet Users] Trying to get a basic connection going between master and agent

2011-09-25 Thread Scott Smith
Is your Puppet client's hostname puppet-slave? On Sep 24, 2011 10:16 AM, "mlove" wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to get a simple example going with one master and one > puppet. I am on Debian and used apt-get install puppetmaster for the > master and apt-get install puppet for the puppet. I was a

Re: [Puppet Users] Using puppet to install debian packages from backports

2011-09-25 Thread Gabriel Filion
On 11-09-24 06:17 PM, Denmat wrote: > Hi, > > The options available to you are: > * Try an exec that installs the package > * try pinning the resource and push that to your apt config > * try specifying version in the config Using the backports version in the ensure parameter works, but you

[Puppet Users] Re: Official puppetlabs position on cron vs puppet as a service?

2011-09-25 Thread treydock
On Sep 24, 9:42 pm, Aaron Grewell wrote: > We had frequent inexplicable daemon crashes on Solaris, but not on RHEL5 (at > least not yet) .   Given known issues with memory leakage in older Ruby > releases Cron seemed more likely to be reliable.   We stuck a random wait in > the Cron job to sprea

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Official puppetlabs position on cron vs puppet as a service?

2011-09-25 Thread Ohad Levy
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 10:33 PM, treydock wrote: > > > On Sep 24, 9:42 pm, Aaron Grewell wrote: >> We had frequent inexplicable daemon crashes on Solaris, but not on RHEL5 (at >> least not yet) .   Given known issues with memory leakage in older Ruby >> releases Cron seemed more likely to be rel

Re: [Puppet Users] Could not render to pson: you must specify title patterns

2011-09-25 Thread Stefan Schulte
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 01:43:05AM +0200, Steve Traylen wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to add my first custom type to puppet largely copying > examples whilst working with puppet-2.6.6. > > My error: > > err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on > SERVER: Could not render to pso

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Official puppetlabs position on cron vs puppet as a service?

2011-09-25 Thread Scott Smith
Ohad, was rand_fqdn not sufficient for you? On Sep 25, 2011 1:03 PM, "Ohad Levy" wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 10:33 PM, treydock wrote: >> >> >> On Sep 24, 9:42 pm, Aaron Grewell wrote: >>> We had frequent inexplicable daemon crashes on Solaris, but not on RHEL5 (at >>> least not yet) . Gi

[Puppet Users] Re: Using puppet to install debian packages from backports

2011-09-25 Thread Sébastien B .
Thank to both of you for your help, I'll try to setup apt-pinning. Cheers -- S Barthélémy -- 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

Re: [Puppet Users] Gotchas around upgrading from an old version (0.25.4) to a newer version.

2011-09-25 Thread Brian Gupta
If you follow the mailing list it seems that there were a larger number of deliberate syntax changes from the move from 2.6 to 2.7 than there were from 0.25 to 2.6. IE: Syntax that changes behavior, not just breaks. The rule of thumb has always been to support one major version backwards, so a 2.7

[Puppet Users] Lost sunglasses at PuppetConf

2011-09-25 Thread Steve Snodgrass
Hi folks, sorry about this unusual email but I wasn't sure where else to send this. I just attended PuppetConf 2011 in Portland. On the last day near the end of the conference, I found a pair of sunglasses in the main auditorium. I stowed them in my backpack intending to find out if there was a

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Using puppet to install debian packages from backports

2011-09-25 Thread Peter Meier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi > I'll try to setup apt-pinning. the apt module @ https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/shared-apt/ Can help you by setting up pinning: https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/shared-apt/repository/revisions/master/entry/README#L303 ~pete -BE