Re: [Puppet Users] Why we wont use zpool ever again

2010-04-07 Thread Gary Law
ime. IMHO that's provisioning. I've done some work with disk / volume management with Puppet (with LVM on Linux) in the past and this was to work around severe limitations in the provisioning system we had. I'd never recommended doing this again, it was the wrong tool for the job. -- Ga

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet for switches

2010-05-05 Thread Gary Law
bbery.net/rancid/ HTH Gary -- Gary Law -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: question about package provider on Solaris

2010-07-16 Thread Gary Law
nd answer some questions, however, I've not tried in your circumstances. Use of pkg-get is now deprecated by Blastwave and unpopular (but still supported) with OpenCSW. You could argue none of this is a problem with puppet per se, however, I think puppet needs to move it's Solaris Blastwave

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: question about package provider on Solaris

2010-07-16 Thread Gary Law
ve repository. There's at least one other replacement for the blastwave provider kicking around I've seen, again, utilising pkgutil. HTH Gary -- Gary Law Email: gary...@garylaw.net Chat googletalk/messenger: gary@gmail.com iChat/jabber/AIM: gary@mac.com -- You received this

Re: [Puppet Users] UK Meet-up?

2010-09-14 Thread Gary Law
cent AFAIK. A "puppet pint" after the next Devops might be nice. Gary -- Gary Law Email: gary...@garylaw.net Chat googletalk/messenger: gary@gmail.com iChat/jabber/AIM: gary@mac.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppe

Re: [Puppet Users] Facter ignores interfaces with non eth names

2010-10-04 Thread Gary Law
...@sv01:~ $ facter | grep e1000g interfaces => lo0_13,e1000g0_13 ipaddress_e1000g0_13 => x.x.x.x netmask_e1000g0_13 => x.x.x.x network_e1000g0_13 => x.x.x.x YMMV -- Gary Law Email: gary...@garylaw.net Chat googletalk/messenger: gary@gmail.com iChat/jabber/AIM: gary@mac.com

Re: [Puppet Users] Parsing files at nodes

2010-11-24 Thread Gary Law
On 24 November 2010 15:13, Nicolas Arias wrote: > > Is this possible?, if it's possible, any hint? Custom fact that tells you where the syslog is going. Custom facts, in general, are your friend. :) -- Gary Law Email/Chat googletalk/messenger: gary@gmail.com iChat/jabbe

Re: [Puppet Users] Thoughts on dropping 0.24.x client support in Puppet 2.7?

2010-11-24 Thread Gary Law
Remember, a fair few places in the UK are still-running-IE-6 shops. My firm would be happy for a six month release/patch cycle, but we're not change averse. Others firms I've worked for are. Gary -- Gary Law Email/Chat googletalk/messenger: gary@gmail.com iChat/jabber/AIM

Re: [Puppet Users] Using Puppet to create a banner when logging in a server

2011-01-12 Thread Gary Law
t;%= kernelversion %> <%= kernel %> hardware: <%= hardwaremodel %> HTH Gary -- Gary Law Email/Chat googletalk/messenger: gary@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this grou

[Puppet Users] Solaris Package for 0.25

2009-09-05 Thread Gary Law
It's here: http://mirror.opencsw.org/opencsw/testing/i386/5.9/puppet-0.25.0,REV=2009.09.05-SunOS5.9-all-CSW.pkg.gz and here: http://mirror.opencsw.org/opencsw/testing/sparc/5.9/puppet-0.25.0,REV=2009.09.05-SunOS5.9-all-CSW.pkg.gz comments welcome. Gary -- Gary Law gary@gmai

[Puppet Users] Re: [Puppet-dev] ANNOUNCE: Puppet 0.25.1 released!

2009-11-16 Thread Gary Law
2009/10/27 James Turnbull : > Puppet 0.25.1 - code name "zoot" - is now available.  The 0.25.1 release > is a maintenance release in the 0.25.x branch. There are Solaris packages for puppet available here: http://garylaw.net/packages/puppet-0.25.1,REV=2009.11.15-SunOS5.9-all-CSW.pkg.gz and facter

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: London meetup during Training days

2010-03-29 Thread Gary Law
which I think was the scene of a previous meet. May not be able to make it myself though... :( HTH Gary -- Gary Law -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.co

Re: [Puppet Users] London Puppet Meet - Wednesday 31 March

2010-03-30 Thread Gary Law
/group/puppet-users?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > p

[Puppet Users] Re: London Training Sept 29th - Oct 3rd

2008-09-17 Thread Gary Law
t.com/pubs/pub1598.html http://www.fancyapint.com/pubs/pub3176.html http://www.fancyapint.com/pubs/pub1592.html or this one that's closer: http://www.fancyapint.com/pubs/pub847.html I'll be joining you if I can... Gary -- Gary Law --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Yo

[Puppet Users] Re: Unable to get initial example

2009-01-09 Thread Gary Law
02.network.com with names ndc2test02.network.com, ndc2test02 > err: Could not retrieve configuration: Cannot connect to server and > there is no cached configuration > it looks like a naming problem; what is the output of /opt/csw/bin/facter on both hosts? -- Gary Law Email: gary.

[Puppet Users] New Solaris Packages...

2009-01-10 Thread Gary Law
http://www.garylaw.net/packages/facter-1.5.2,REV=2009.01.10-SunOS5.8-all-CSW.pkg.gz http://www.garylaw.net/packages/puppet-0.24.7,REV=2009.01.10-SunOS5.8-all-CSW.pkg.gz testing and feedback appreciated. Gary -- Gary Law Email: gary@gmail.com Chat googletalk/messenger: gary@gmail.com

[Puppet Users] Re: UK Meetups / Training

2009-02-17 Thread Gary Law
2009/2/17 Joel Merrick > Hi all! > > Are there any Puppet UK meetups or training etc. ? > > In the past there's been both, but I missed the last one. If anyone's interested I'm free tomorrow night for a beer... London area ;) Gary -- Gary Law Email: gary.

[Puppet Users] Re: Community: How to deal with attempts at sabotage

2009-03-09 Thread Gary Law
tly about things on at another cinema, I'd feel that was an abuse of the list). I would expect the list owner to warn them against it, and, if they continued, boot them off. Gary -- Gary Law Email: gary...@garylaw.net Chat googletalk/messenger: gary@gmail.com

[Puppet Users] Re: custom facts not working

2009-03-11 Thread Gary Law
v 1.5.1 g...@dv01:~ $ sudo facter operatingsystem Debian g...@dv01:~ $ I may raise a bug. Gary -- Gary Law Email: gary...@garylaw.net Chat googletalk/messenger: gary@gmail.com iChat/jabber/AIM: gary@mac.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this mess

[Puppet Users] Re: custom facts not working

2009-03-11 Thread Gary Law
. > I've raised this ticket:- http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/2067 I'll update with what you say. I've no Xen box to test on, but 'virtual' doesn't work for me on HyperV or Solaris Zones. Gary -- Gary Law Email: gary...@garylaw.net Chat google

[Puppet Users] Re: London (UK) Puppet Meetup 24th March (UKUUG social)

2009-03-16 Thread Gary Law
2009/3/16 Julian Simpson > > I should be there. I'll be standing next to Paul. > And I'm so double booked that night. Rats. I might be able to get the for nine... will you still be there? Gary -- Gary Law --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You re

[Puppet Users] Re: London (UK) Puppet Meetup 24th March (UKUUG social)

2009-03-17 Thread Gary Law
2009/3/17 Julian Simpson > > I won't be out til the small hours, but I will try and stay out past 9. > see you there then... Gary -- Gary Law --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[Puppet Users] Re: Subscribe to a recursive file...

2009-03-25 Thread Gary Law
this:- file { "/var/named": ensure => directory, notify => Exec["/etc/init.d/named reload"], owner => named, group => named, mode=> 0644, require => File["/etc/named.root.hints"]

[Puppet Users] Re: Subscribe to a recursive file...

2009-03-25 Thread Gary Law
=>glaw, group=>glaw, mode =>0644, source =>"puppet://sv01.garylaw.net/rectest/var/named", recurse =>true, force=>true, ignore =>".svn", purge=

[Puppet Users] Re: /etc/init.d/puppet on debian

2009-04-02 Thread Gary Law
puppetd -w 5 g...@dv01:~ $ puppet --version 0.24.5 Basically, the stop argument doesn't seem to work, and AFAIK nothing gets written to /var/run/puppet. Start works OK. Debian version is Lenny. I'm not a total Debian newbie, but frankly it's not really my comfort zone either, so I might

[Puppet Users] Re: apache2 template

2009-04-02 Thread Gary Law
h (too many execs for my liking, as I couldn't take the time to make the relationship between site owners and sites work with realised resources). Anyway, some code is here: http://pastebin.ca/1380359 Gary -- Gary Law Email: gary...@garylaw.net Chat googletalk/messenger: gary@gma

[Puppet Users] Re: /etc/init.d/puppet on debian

2009-04-02 Thread Gary Law
ol g...@dv01:~ $ cat /etc/puppet/puppet.conf [puppetd] server=sv01.garylaw.net -- Gary Law Email: gary...@garylaw.net Chat googletalk/messenger: gary@gmail.com iChat/jabber/AIM: gary@mac.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

[Puppet Users] Re: /etc/init.d/puppet on debian

2009-04-03 Thread Gary Law
/var/puppet/run/puppetd.pid 30642g...@dv01:/ $ sudo kill $(cat /var/puppet/run/puppetd.pid ) g...@dv01:/ $ ps -ef | grep [p]uppet g...@dv01:/ $ I can't see any obvious reason why this isn't working Gary -- Gary Law Email: gary...@ga

[Puppet Users] Re: /etc/init.d/puppet on debian

2009-04-06 Thread Gary Law
2009/4/4 Marcin Owsiany > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 05:58:45PM +0100, Gary Law wrote: > > g...@dv01:/ $ sudo /etc/init.d/puppet stop > [...] > > I can't see any obvious reason why this isn't working > > sudo bash -x /etc/init.d/puppet stop > > might be

[Puppet Users] Re: /etc/init.d/puppet on debian

2009-04-08 Thread Gary Law
2009/4/6 Marcin Owsiany > > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:50:17AM +0100, Gary Law wrote: > > + start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /var/run/puppet/puppetd.pid > [...] > > g...@dv01:~ $ ps -ef | grep [p]uppet > > root 6774 1 0 Apr04 ?00:06:49 ru

[Puppet Users] Re: Processing arrays

2009-04-08 Thread Gary Law
I've not seen a 'for' loop in puppet, but then again I've never looked properly... :) Gary -- Gary Law Email: gary...@garylaw.net Chat googletalk/messenger: gary@gmail.com iChat/jabber/AIM: gary@mac.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You receive

[Puppet Users] Re: Support Expectations (was: Licensing and Copyright)

2009-04-09 Thread Gary Law
rt if required (and I'd expect to pay extra for that); - No bugs ;) Gary -- Gary Law Email: gary...@garylaw.net Chat googletalk/messenger: gary@gmail.com iChat/jabber/AIM: gary@mac.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message becau

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet Camp

2009-04-20 Thread Gary Law
ight from Europe other than from Amsterdam. If you want international attendees I'd suggest one of the major tourist/business cities like SFO, JFK, or a hub for an international airline, like DFW (for American Airlines). Direct flights are a fair bit cheaper and a whole heap more convenient.

[Puppet Users] Re: /etc/init.d/puppet on debian

2009-05-02 Thread Gary Law
heers Gary -- Gary Law Email: gary...@garylaw.net Chat googletalk/messenger: gary@gmail.com iChat/jabber/AIM: gary@mac.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group.

[Puppet Users] Re: /etc/init.d/puppet on debian

2009-05-09 Thread Gary Law
2009/5/3 Russ Allbery > > Gary Law writes: > > > The init script is clearly trying to make the pid file appear in > > /var/run/puppet... so I've little idea why this is happening. > > > > from the init script: > > start_puppet() { > > st