Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Requiring a File defined in another classs

2011-10-26 Thread Felix Frank
Please note that requiring resources from foreign classes is generally bad practice. If possible, require the whole class that defines the resource. Cheers, Felix -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email

Re: [Puppet Users] [ask] Upgrade for CVE-2011-3872 AltNames Vulnerability

2011-10-26 Thread Peter Meier
Is it ok if i just upgrade puppetmaster to 2.6.12 and still using old puppet.conf with certdnsnames? The certdnsnames have been abandonned in favor of a new option: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/configuration.html#certdnsnames And if your current client certificates contain a

[Puppet Users] Duplicate exported resources

2011-10-26 Thread Galed Friedmann
Hey all, I'm exporting a Host resource across my puppet managed client for various synchronizations across my servers. Lately I'm seeing duplicate exported resources problems and have a hard time understanding what is causing this, I'll appreciate your help :) This happens almost every day at v

Re: [Puppet Users] Regenerating puppet master certificate

2011-10-26 Thread Peter Meier
Wish I could've found that in the docs. This will certainly get me going again. Sounds like a ticket for puppet documentation... ~pete -- 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@googlegro

Re: [Puppet Users] help with the firewall puppet forge module

2011-10-26 Thread Dan Carley
On 25 October 2011 22:49, David Alden wrote: > I got: > > err: Could not autoload firewall: no such file to load -- > puppet/util/firewall at /etc/puppet/modules/snmp/manifests/config.pp:9 > on node ns2.math.osu.edu > > I tried "puppet describe firewall" and got: > > Could not run: Could not auto

Re: [Puppet Users] bug: recursive directory copy that re-copies nightly

2011-10-26 Thread Ken Barber
Now that is curious. What I find really strange about this - is that the checksums are the same between _some_ of the various files. Original and resultant checksums as well ... But this isn't consistent: > Wed Oct 26 04:02:35 + 2011 > /File[/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_clamd]/content (n

Re: [Puppet Users] Regenerating puppet master certificate

2011-10-26 Thread Brice Figureau
On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 10:02 +0200, Peter Meier wrote: > > Wish I could've found that in the docs. > > This will certainly get me going again. > > Sounds like a ticket for puppet documentation... What would be awesome is this hidden feature to become a first class feature in puppet cert (like --ge

Re: [Puppet Users] Manitest Duplicate Node Definition

2011-10-26 Thread Felix Frank
Hi, I have no idea concerning you actual problem but this On 10/25/2011 09:15 PM, Brian Pitts wrote: > I'm running puppet 0.24.8 ...is disturbing. Consider upgrading at least to 2.6 by any means necessary. Doing so may conceivably solve strange problems you are experiencing. Cheers, Felix --

Re: [Puppet Users] help with the firewall puppet forge module

2011-10-26 Thread Ken Barber
Thanks Dan - I've submitted a pull request and created a ticket around this. http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/10295 I've also updated the README to be more descriptive about restarting and pluginsync if the workaround doesn't do what we want. I've tested this standalone - and it seems to wo

[Puppet Users] Re: Duplicate exported resources

2011-10-26 Thread jcbollinger
On Oct 26, 3:01 am, Galed Friedmann wrote: > Hey all, > I'm exporting a Host resource across my puppet managed client for various > synchronizations across my servers. Lately I'm seeing duplicate exported > resources problems and have a hard time understanding what is causing this, > I'll apprec

[Puppet Users] Re: Requiring a File defined in another classs

2011-10-26 Thread jcbollinger
On Oct 26, 2:56 am, Felix Frank wrote: > Please note that requiring resources from foreign classes is generally > bad practice. > If possible, require the whole class that defines the resource. Yes, that seems to be the prevailing opinion, but I am a bit looser myself. For me, it's a question

Re: [Puppet Users] bug: recursive directory copy that re-copies nightly

2011-10-26 Thread Doug Warner
On 10/26/2011 12:51 AM, Jo Rhett wrote: > It happens every night around 9pm (4am UDT). EVERY night. 4am, so cron.daily? prelink? -Doug signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[Puppet Users] Request for comments: new foo module template

2011-10-26 Thread Alessandro Franceschi
To who may be interested, I'm working on the default template of the next generation of Example42 modules. In http://github.com/example42/puppet-foo2 there's the foo sample module. All the "first generation" Example42 modules ( http://github.com/example42/puppet-modules ) which are more or less

[Puppet Users] rpm packages for el4

2011-10-26 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi all, anyone has created the rpm packages of new versions for el4? only 5/6 at http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/ TIA, Arnau -- 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

Re: [Puppet Users] help with the firewall puppet forge module

2011-10-26 Thread Dave Alden
Hi, So now I'm not getting any errors when I put the following in one of my classes: firewall { "allow-snmp": proto => 'all', dport => '161', action => 'accept', } But I'm also not seeing any change in my iptables firewall (nor am I seeing anything about th

Re: [Puppet Users] help with the firewall puppet forge module

2011-10-26 Thread Ken Barber
Hi Dave, Is the class getting included properly? You should be getting: err: Could not run Puppet configuration client: Parameter name failed: Invalid value "allow-snmp". Which is what I'm seeing when I use that rule. The rules need numbers for ordering:      firewall { "500 allow-snmp":    

Re: [SPAM] Re: [Puppet Users] help with the firewall puppet forge module

2011-10-26 Thread Dave Alden
Hi, On Oct 26, 2011, at 10:55 AM, Ken Barber wrote: > Is the class getting included properly? You should be getting: > > err: Could not run Puppet configuration client: Parameter name failed: > Invalid value "allow-snmp". I believe it is. I was not getting the error, but I've gone ahead and add

Re: [SPAM] Re: [Puppet Users] help with the firewall puppet forge module

2011-10-26 Thread Ken Barber
Odd that you get no results. I'm curious. What is the output of 'iptables-save' on your box? Also ... can you do a: puppet resource firewall And does it return anything? Try inserting a rule and testing it as well (rule needs a number - but we are fixing that now). ken. On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 a

[Puppet Users] Re: How to access vars in a template

2011-10-26 Thread Mohamed Lrhazi
I had a syntax error indeed, a missing ')'... just not in the line I was looking at. Can I have a block of ruby code at the beginning of my erb file, where I would prepare all the out of scope variables, put them into local name space, so as to simplify the rest of the template? something like:

[Puppet Users] Re: bug: recursive directory copy that re-copies nightly

2011-10-26 Thread madAndroid
very odd problem! is it possible that an nrpe check is being executed at 9pm which is changing the atime on the plugin directory thereby causing the agent to check the Md5s? Does your nagios box run any specific checks on those affected nodes at the same time you're seeing the puppet oddness? Che

[Puppet Users] Exporting variables between manifests/nodes

2011-10-26 Thread Baptiste Grenier
Hello, Here is what I am trying to do: - in a class aptdater::client I want to export the $fqdn - in a class aptdater::master I want to retrieve all the exported $fqdn to fill an erb template of a configuration file Here is what I tried: # modules/aptdater/manifests/init.pp class aptdater { #

[Puppet Users] Exporting variables between manifests/nodes to fill an erb template

2011-10-26 Thread Baptiste
Hello, Here is what I am trying to do: - in a class aptdater::client I want to export the $fqdn - in a class aptdater::master I want to retrieve all the exported $fqdn to fill an erb template of a configuration file Here is what I tried: # modules/aptdater/manifests/init.pp class aptdater { #

[Puppet Users] using an array with file

2011-10-26 Thread Marc Richman
I have a bunch of files in some directory that I need to link to someother directory What I want to do is something like this: $file_list = [ "filea", "fileb", "filec"] file {$file_list: ensure => link, path => "/some_directory/", target => "/someother_directory/", } So, the question i

Re: [Puppet Users] using an array with file

2011-10-26 Thread Ken Barber
You could wrap it in a defined resource ...? $file_list = [ “filea”, “fileb”, “filec”] define filelinks() { file { $name: ensure => link, path   => “/some_directory/${name}”, target => “/someother_directory/${name}”, } } filelinks { $file_list: } ken. On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 5:3

[Puppet Users] Devops/Puppet job in downtown Boston

2011-10-26 Thread Ashley Penney
Hi, We're looking (well, my boss is looking) to expand our operations team in Boston and we're specifically looking for people with a passion for automation. Ideally the candidate we're looking for would be developer minded, with the ability to write custom tools or customize existing products (W

[Puppet Users] help with defined() and subclasses

2011-10-26 Thread Christopher McCrory
Hello... Can someone hit me with a clue stick? I cannot understand why if defined(File['/tmp/file-bar']) { notify {"DEBUG if defined class $title THIS NEVER WORKS":} } from below does not work. I'm using 2.6.11 from tmz's repo $ cat file-test.pp # vim: set syntax=puppet # class cre

[Puppet Users] Error in puppet manifest which I cannot track down....

2011-10-26 Thread Deven Phillips
Hello all, I'm hoping that someone on this list might be able to help me track down an error in my manifests. I have 3 environments. In my dev environment, I have the following directories configured: /etc/puppet/dev/modules manifests templates For the man

Re: [SPAM] Re: [Puppet Users] help with the firewall puppet forge module

2011-10-26 Thread Dave Alden
Hi, On Oct 26, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Ken Barber wrote: > Odd that you get no results. > > I'm curious. What is the output of 'iptables-save' on your box? > > Also ... can you do a: > > puppet resource firewall > > And does it return anything? Try inserting a rule and testing it as > well (rule ne

Re: [Puppet Users] rpm packages for el4

2011-10-26 Thread Michael Stahnke
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Arnau Bria wrote: > Hi all, > > > anyone has created the rpm packages of new versions for el4? > > only 5/6 at http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/ > We've discussed it. The issue is that el4 ships with ruby 1.8.1. Puppet doesn't work to well with 1.8.1 any more. If you

Re: [SPAM] Re: [Puppet Users] help with the firewall puppet forge module

2011-10-26 Thread Ken Barber
Lol. Yeah I'm surprised puppet didn't break on that. So we've pushed 0.0.2 with a fix for your puppet/util/firewall problem - so thanks a lot for that :-). The next person might have an easier time of it I hope. ken. On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Dave Alden wrote: > Hi, > > On Oct 26, 2011,

[Puppet Users] Re: Error in puppet manifest which I cannot track down....

2011-10-26 Thread Deven Phillips
Well, I found the cause but I still don't know the reason... On a whim, I removed the "storedconfigs" settings from my puppetmaster's configuration. Everything started working. BIZARRE!!! Deven On Oct 26, 4:21 pm, Deven Phillips wrote: > Hello all, > >      I'm hoping that someone on this list m

[Puppet Users] solved Re: help with defined() and subclasses

2011-10-26 Thread Christopher McCrory
Hello... With help from #puppet I got this to work. changeing this: include file-test::foo include file-test::foo::baz include file-test::bar include file-test::bar::baz to this: include file-test::bar include file-test::bar::baz include file-test::foo include file-test::foo::baz makes everythi

[Puppet Users] Recommendation for module-level and full integration testing puppet configuration.

2011-10-26 Thread Brian Troutwine
All, I've been using puppet in production for some time now, using a staging environment duplicate to my production setup for developing and testing puppet modules. Not, however, in an automated fashion: I write, I run 'puppet agent --test' and I repeat until satisfied. Sometimes, owing to partial

Re: [Puppet Users] bug: recursive directory copy that re-copies nightly

2011-10-26 Thread Jo Rhett
Given that the check type is md5 by default, the nrpe test would have to change the md5 of the files involved. We have lots of NRPE, but every one runs no less often than every 5 minutes. On Oct 26, 2011, at 5:58 AM, madAndroid wrote: > very odd problem! > > is it possible that an nrpe check i

Re: [Puppet Users] bug: recursive directory copy that re-copies nightly

2011-10-26 Thread Jo Rhett
Thank you Doug, for the clue-by-four. I overlooked that. I owe you a beer. On Oct 26, 2011, at 7:23 AM, Doug Warner wrote: > On 10/26/2011 12:51 AM, Jo Rhett wrote: >> It happens every night around 9pm (4am UDT). EVERY night. > > 4am, so cron.daily? > > prelink? > > -Doug > -- Jo Rhett Net

[Puppet Users] Agents seem to hang during updates, Run already in progress; skipping

2011-10-26 Thread Vorik
Hi, Quite a few agents on my servers seem to hang during updates. They show up as unresponsive in Dashboard and when I try to run puppet agent --test , I get this output: %< # puppet agent --test notice: Ignoring --listen on onetime run notice: Run of Puppet configuration c