Fwd: [Puppet Users] Re: Customizing a hostname facts

2012-04-07 Thread Mukul Malhotra
Hi, Actually I want that nobody in my network can change the hostname as some has already changed the hostname of their node so I want to restrict a check that nobody in the network or outside network can change the hostname as they are already provided the sudo access as per requirement. Also all

[Puppet Users] Is Hiera the right tool for this ?

2012-04-07 Thread Jeff
Hi puppeteers, I’m starting from scratch with Puppet 2.7 and I’m trying to avoid some pitfalls from the past using another configuration management tool. I think most of the issues I had could be solved by Puppet and Hiera but being new to the tool and the approach, Im seeking for advice. I

[Puppet Users] Puppet and Passenger

2012-04-07 Thread Jax01
Hi Everyone; I am new to puppet and would SO appreciate any help you might be able to provide! I am attempting to configure Passenger. I have followed all of the installation instructions but, when I restart my webserver, it does not start the puppetmaster nor does it throw any errors. So, I am

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet and Passenger

2012-04-07 Thread Christopher Wood
http://apt.puppetlabs.com/ Use that and then "apt-get install puppetmaster-passenger". (There's a yum repository too.) Then you can crib from those configs. On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 05:45:39PM -0700, Jax01 wrote: > Hi Everyone; > > I am new to puppet and would SO appreciate any help you might be

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet and Passenger

2012-04-07 Thread Gabriel Filion
On 12-04-07 10:43 AM, Christopher Wood wrote: > http://apt.puppetlabs.com/ > > Use that and then "apt-get install puppetmaster-passenger". (There's a yum > repository too.) Then you can crib from those configs. oh, interesting, I didnt' know about this one.. and it's available in squeeze-backpor

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Why latest stable Debian Squeeze package is 2.6.2-5+squeeze4 please ?

2012-04-07 Thread Michael Stahnke
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Christophe L wrote: > Thank you all for your answers ! > > As a suggestion for the documentation, that would be nice to have > information about the http://apt.puppetlabs.com/ apt repository on the > puppet installation page. That is currently undergoing some work

Re: [Puppet Users] Getting started

2012-04-07 Thread Michael Stahnke
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Andreas Haerter wrote: > Hi, > > On 05.04.2012 22:42, Brown, Rodrick wrote: >> I really hate poor documentation. >> >> I’m following along in PDF documentation I downloaded from the official >> site and I’m stuck after I installed rack & passenger modules from >> ru

[Puppet Users] node-specific resources outside of a general-purpose module

2012-04-07 Thread Jonathon Anderson
I think there's something simple I'm missing about module best practices and application to nodes. Let's assume I've been a good module developer: I have a general-purpose module with no site- or node-specific knowledge, and it defines a number of classes (generalized with parameters, extlookup