[Puppet Users] question about custom facts and environmental variables

2010-11-08 Thread Edward Bailey
I am having a great deal of trouble using a custom fact in a module and I am hoping someone can help me out. I am using facter-1.5.0-2.el4 and puppet-0.24.5-1.el4. I know these are really old versions. The custom fact is defined using an environmental variable export FACTER_VERTICAL="dev fit"

Re: Re: [Puppet Users] question about custom facts and environmental variables

2010-11-09 Thread Edward Bailey
looks like a better way to get facts in: > >> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Adding_Facts > >> > >> This will allow you to get some level of synchronization of your custom > >> facts from your master to your clients in a much cleaner way. > >&g

Re: [Puppet Users] question about custom facts and environmental variables

2010-11-09 Thread Edward Bailey
server means the hardware that the puppet client manages On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Patrick wrote: > > On Nov 9, 2010, at 6:01 PM, Edward Bailey wrote: > > The purpose behind setting up the fact this way is that I thought it would > be an easy way to populate servers with

Re: Re: [Puppet Users] question about custom facts and environmental variables

2010-11-09 Thread Edward Bailey
>> because > >> >> daemon will run as its own process with its own environment, so just > >> >> exporting the variable will only effect your current running > >> >> environment and > >> >> not the puppet daemon environment. As s

[Puppet Users] mcollective for rhel 4

2011-01-21 Thread Edward Bailey
Is their a mcollective rpm for rhel4? If not, is their a src rpm for 1.0 I can compile for rhel4? I looked around the web site and could not find anything. Thanks Ed -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send e

[Puppet Users] new puppet server using passenger and having issues

2009-05-04 Thread Edward Bailey
Hello I am working on migrating from a working mongrel based puppet server to a passenger based puppet server and I need some help. I am still getting some errors that I can't explain and I hope someone knows what I am doing wrong. I have installed the following to setup passenger gem list ***

[Puppet Users] creating symlinks with wildcards

2009-05-12 Thread Edward Bailey
To explain the background behind my question We have a number of situations where it would be great if I could have puppet automatically maintain a symlink for a resource such as the Java JVM. For example - we install the JDK in /usr/java so after the RPM install, the path to the JVM is /usr/ja