Re: [Puppet Users] 2.7.2rc changed the way variable names are parsed

2011-07-26 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] 2.7.2rc changed the way variable names are parsed

2011-07-26 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:52 AM, vagn scott wrote: > On 07/26/2011 10:32 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > >> >> Allowing a trailing hyphen doesn't seem like the most optimal solution >> though >> > That doesn't matter so much. But, expanding the

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: ANNOUNCE: Cloud Provisioner v0.6.0rc1 release

2011-07-26 Thread Nigel Kersten
t much simpler to support all sorts of environments. We will be seeking input from the community, cloud providers, interested third parties etc for this design, and even more ideally we'll get people interested in contributing actual code. Look for a call for input/feedback in the not too di

Re: [Puppet Users] 2.7.2rc changed the way variable names are parsed

2011-07-26 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:21 AM, vagn scott wrote: > On 07/26/2011 10:54 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > >> >> I guess it's just a case of being a defensive shell programmer, but I've >> always considered curlies-with-double-quotes to be essential with all >> i

Re: [Puppet Users] Best practices for confidential information -- fileserver path vs modules / template

2011-07-26 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:26 PM, scott wrote: > > We had sort of solved this problem with a custom fileserver mount > point and a subrepo in our mercurial repo, but this only worked when > referring to content as puppet://hostname/custommountpoint. As soon > as we switched to omitting the hostn

Re: [Puppet Users] Upgrading 0.25.5 to 2.7.1

2011-07-27 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > I do. I guess I had assumed, wrongly apparently, that a client could have > knowledge of multiple servers. Clients can totally work with multiple puppet masters. They can't however work with multiple CAs. -- You received this message

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: puppetmaster SSL_Read

2011-07-27 Thread Nigel Kersten
errors? Is it always the same ones? > > Thanks > > On Jul 25, 12:57 pm, Nigel Kersten wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 8:44 AM, c.clifton wrote: >> > I did find that this error is being generated/caused by 1 host, on >> > that host it appears to be related

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet HA from 'Pro Puppet'

2011-07-30 Thread Nigel Kersten
request: > hxmgt01.h.xxx.com(10.5.100.106) access to /report/sv4xen04.h.xxx.com[save] at > line 98 > > Ideas? > > Doug. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group

Re: [Puppet Users] Another Custom Fact deployment problem

2011-08-02 Thread Nigel Kersten
d 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 email to >>>> puppet-users+unsubscr...@go

Re: [Puppet Users] Unable to display Filebucket in Dashboard 1.2rc3 : We're sorry, but something went wrong

2011-08-04 Thread Nigel Kersten
gt; > I've located bucketed files on the master so the problem seems to be > between the dashboard and the master. How do I debug this? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this gr

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Unable to display Filebucket in Dashboard 1.2rc3 : We're sorry, but something went wrong

2011-08-05 Thread Nigel Kersten
ger (3.0.7) lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:275:in > `handle_spawn_application' > passenger (3.0.7) lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:357:in > `__send__' > passenger (3.0.7) lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:357:in > `server_main_loop' > passenge

[Puppet Users] Does Node Inheritance work for people?

2011-08-05 Thread Nigel Kersten
We have a bunch of problems people regularly run into with node inheritance, and it's something we'd like to find a better solution for. Is anyone using node inheritance and happy with how it works? If so, can you describe your setup briefly? -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet L

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Unable to display Filebucket in Dashboard 1.2rc3 : We're sorry, but something went wrong

2011-08-05 Thread Nigel Kersten
to allow everyone, and you really should lock it down to just the dashboard itself. > > On 5 août, 09:31, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Claude > wrote: > > > Here's what the log shows : > > > > > Processing FilesController

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Unable to display Filebucket in Dashboard 1.2rc3 : We're sorry, but something went wrong

2011-08-05 Thread Nigel Kersten
; or did you generate a different certname? > > Also not using * in /file_bucket_file/md5 forbids clients from > uploading bucketed files. > Hrm. That hasn't been necessary whenever I've set it up. We might have to dig into why this is. > > Am I missing something here? >

Re: [Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: Puppet 2.7.3

2011-08-16 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:22 PM, David L Ballenger wrote: > Since upgrading for Puppet 2.7.1 to 2.7.3 I have been getting the following > error whenever a Puppet agent runs: > > err: Failed to apply catalog: Parameter options failed: Options must be > provided as an array, not a comma separated li

Re: [Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: Puppet 2.7.3

2011-08-16 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:00 PM, David L Ballenger wrote: > > On Aug 16, 2011, at 10:48 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:22 PM, David L Ballenger < > d...@davidlballenger.com> wrote: > >> Since upgrading for Puppet 2.7.1 to 2.7.3

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Secure Certification Authority Transfer

2011-08-25 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 8:02 AM, It Dept wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions, these have given us some possibilities to > look at. > > Just to be clear: Is there no built in way to force the puppet client > to NEVER retrieve certificates/CA without verifying the certificate > chain first? (withou

Re: [Puppet Users] Announce Only List

2011-08-26 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Christopher Webber wrote: > Is there an announce only list for Puppet at this point? > > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce Only final releases, you won't see the RC churn here. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gr

Re: [Puppet Users] Module organization: file serving

2011-08-29 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] Need some advice: Clients that change name and IP address

2011-08-30 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] Multiple template fallbacks

2011-09-01 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] Custom Facts

2011-09-01 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] Custom Facts

2011-09-01 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Aaron Grewell wrote: > >> And then assign classes based on that. Standard if logic or case >> statement as you prefer. >> >> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Douglas Garstang > > wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Sep 1,

Re: [Puppet Users] Custom Facts

2011-09-01 Thread Nigel Kersten
iate. > Doug. > > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Douglas Garstang > wrote: > >> Thanks Nigel, but there's no mention of classes.txt on that page. >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: >> >>> >>> &

Re: [Puppet Users] OS X Lion group membership not updated

2011-09-07 Thread Nigel Kersten
rectoryServices that caused our provider to break under Lion. I just got Lion installed recently on my laptop, and I'm planning to churn through these issues in the next few days, targeting the fixes at 2.7.x. -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs *Join us for **PuppetConf * &l

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: The require function

2011-09-07 Thread Nigel Kersten
a different view of this than you. You've seen this with your own resources where the parent is a directory and the child is a file? Please bug report, as it's been a very long time since that autorequire was put in (0.24.x ? 0.25.x?), and I haven't seen a reported bug since th

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: The require function

2011-09-07 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Nigel Kersten > wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Douglas Garstang < > doug.garst...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> Actually, that's not true.

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: The require function

2011-09-07 Thread Nigel Kersten
d. Wording and tone matters. To everyone else, please don't dog-pile on this issue unless you're trying to be constructive. I do believe most of you have been trying to, but I'd like to prevent a mob mentality from emerging. -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs *Join us

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Using Puppet to reset admin passwords on Windows

2011-09-08 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Using Puppet to reset admin passwords on Windows

2011-09-08 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Craig White wrote: > > On Sep 8, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:51 AM, M. Hand wrote: > > Is there a way to have a Windows hashed password setup from the > > command line (ie w

Re: [Puppet Users] How To Expand an .erb Template Without Doing a Full Puppet Run?

2011-09-10 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] How To Expand an .erb Template Without Doing a Full Puppet Run?

2011-09-12 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Jon Forrest wrote: > On 9/10/2011 6:57 PM, Jonathan Stanton wrote: > >> >> Maybe I'm missing something here, but I think Jon was asking >> something a bit different -- he doesn't want to check the validity of >> the erb template (i.e. ruby syntax check) but syntax

[Puppet Users] Re: [Puppet-dev] Community Package Repos for Puppet Labs products

2011-09-12 Thread Nigel Kersten
t; > > Thanks, > Mike > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-de

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Facter variable $puppetversion

2011-09-13 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > > I wonder if the performance of the puppet master in 2.7.3 has > increased to the point where passenger/mongrel aren't really required > anymore? I'm running puppet in standalone debug right now, and forced > 40 or so clients to reconnect

Re: [Puppet Users] Email Protection? (NON SUBJECT ORIENTED)

2011-09-15 Thread Nigel Kersten
CHA to view full email addresses on the web archives, etc etc, but it's difficult to stop people subscribing to lists and collecting addresses that way. -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs *Join us for **PuppetConf * <http://www.bit.ly/puppetconfsig> Sept 22/23 Portland,

Re: [Puppet Users] Definitions in a external node classifier

2011-09-15 Thread Nigel Kersten
d we don't want to end up having them be significantly second-class with an ENC compared to resources. Should a parameterized class be expressed as: classes: - common: param1: "value1" param2: "value2" or: resources: - common: type: class param1: "

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet and kerberos keytabs

2011-09-15 Thread Nigel Kersten
leserver mount points with explicit access privileges so only the specific clients can access those files. You could create a function that returned the correct keytab for a given host, so the content was only available in the catalogs, not as files. file { "/path/to/my_keytab": c

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Ubuntu Execution of '/etc/puppet/etckeeper-commit-pre' returned 1:

2011-09-16 Thread Nigel Kersten
ed 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 email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.goo

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Software inventory

2011-09-21 Thread Nigel Kersten
it doesn't look elegant if a large number of packages is >> installed. >> >> If you care about certain packages only, you can populate the file >> with those package names. >> >> Or you can populate it with the output of "yum check-update" or

Re: [Puppet Users] Variable number of variables in external node output...

2011-09-21 Thread Nigel Kersten
to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs Join us for PuppetConf <http://www.bit.ly/puppetconfsig> Sept 22/23 Portland, Ore

Re: [Puppet Users] CloudPack problems with CentOS AMIs

2011-09-23 Thread Nigel Kersten
t know how to do it in Net::ssh) > > 2) There was no /etc/redhat-release file in the image, so > master/lib/puppet/cloudpack/scripts/gems.erb breaks. > For this I hardcoded redhat as default. > > Its good to have these fixed if devs seem its important for them. It would be great if

Re: [Puppet Users] bug: --verbose on v2.6.6 doesn't always report changes. known and fixed in 2.7?

2011-09-26 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Jo Rhett wrote: > Nope, just puppet itself. (unless passenger is part of puppet and I could be > running it without knowing it) We thought this problem was restricted to Passenger setups, but it appears it was wider than that. http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issu

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Community Package Repos for Puppet Labs products

2011-09-29 Thread Nigel Kersten
rs?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-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+

Re: [Puppet Users] Hostname fact doesn't handle hostnames with periods

2011-09-29 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Doug Balmer wrote: > 'Note that periods are only allowed when they serve to delimit components >> of "domain style names".' >> > > Let's give this sentence some context. > > > ASSUMPTIONS > >1. A "name" (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string

Re: [Puppet Users] What's the best way to deal with multiple OS's

2011-09-30 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Jeff Falgout wrote: > We're in the situation of dealing with multiple operating systems (and will > likely add another) and I'm quickly realizing that building logic in the > manifest to deal with the differences in Red Hat i386 vs Red Hat x86_64 vs > SuSE i586 v

Re: [Puppet Users] Trigger when on any package change

2011-10-01 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:22 PM, GeekBiker wrote: > I need to exec a program if ANY packages have been modified (added, > removed, updated, etc). I tried subscribing to Package with a > wildcard, but that isn't supported. > > Is there any way to trigger an exec if there were any packages changes

Re: [Puppet Users] Sudden failure with storeconfigs in 2.7.4

2011-10-01 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Ashley Penney wrote: > Hi, > > I export a @@host for each box (for horrible reasons) and do various things > with that including building a /etc/hosts on each server. Sometime today > after upgrading to 2.7.4 I realized that all my exported entries are failing >

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

2011-10-02 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Steve Traylen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Stefan Schulte > wrote: > > Long story short: > > You see this message because your type does not implement the title > > pattern method but you have a type with more than one keyattribute: > > 1. »id« which

[Puppet Users] RFC: Being able to exclude resources from reporting.

2011-10-04 Thread Nigel Kersten
thing) ? Example: exec { "apt-get update": report => false, } This would run every time, and you'd get interactive output about it, but the resource itself would not end up in the subsequent report. -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs -- You received this

Re: [Puppet Users] Concat::Fragment collection broken in 2.7.5

2011-10-04 Thread Nigel Kersten
e 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 email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com . > For more options, visit this group at htt

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Problems with exported resources after upgrade to 2.7.5

2011-10-06 Thread Nigel Kersten
have piled up to become data, and we're looking at it now. -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs -- 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 unsu

Re: [Puppet Users] Different paths based on environment

2011-10-12 Thread Nigel Kersten
" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > -- Nigel Kerst

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Could not retrieve local facts: private method `split' called for nil:NilClass

2011-10-12 Thread Nigel Kersten
googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs -- You received

Re: [Puppet Users] Different paths based on environment

2011-10-12 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Gonzalo Servat wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > >> >> Are you saying you're sourcing files from outside the current environment >> for the client? >> >> if you put your files into

Re: [Puppet Users] Type reference, Puppet versions

2011-10-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Martijn Grendelman wrote: > Hi, > > I have no idea if this has come up before, I didn't bother to check the > archives or anything, but I was wondering if it would be possible to have > Puppet's documentation reflect the version in which a certain feature was > add

Re: [Puppet Users] Type reference, Puppet versions

2011-10-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Jacob Helwig wrote: > On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:04:19 -0700, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Martijn Grendelman >wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have no idea if this has come up

Re: [Puppet Users] AW: How best to monitor puppet?

2011-10-17 Thread Nigel Kersten
oup. >> To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. >>

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Fwd: How does an ENC find the client's enviromement?

2011-10-18 Thread Nigel Kersten
> > it cannot predict what environment the ENC will assert for the node, > > if any. If the ENC asserts an environment then that wins. > > on paper yes, but it doesnt work that way. > > there's a bug, the only place to reliably put the environment now is on > the nod

Re: [Puppet Users] How to know the generated certname used by a puppet client, for reuse within erb (because of cloud provisioner) ?

2011-10-19 Thread Nigel Kersten
gt; > -- > 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 email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. &g

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: How to know the generated certname used by a puppet client, for reuse within erb (because of cloud provisioner) ?

2011-10-19 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Alexandre wrote: > Great, i had not seen this one, thank you ! > > It should be significantly easier to find out this info, it's not you :) In an ideal world you could run a command as simple as "facter -p" to get access to all of these variables, but not all make

Re: [Puppet Users] LSB facts

2011-10-21 Thread Nigel Kersten
hey pull in a huge amount of dependencies, like X libs, cups, etc etc on a bunch of platforms, so some people don't have them available. -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. T

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

2011-10-25 Thread Nigel Kersten
o puppet-users+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com . > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/puppet-users?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en> > . > > -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs -- You received t

Re: [Puppet Users] Regenerating puppet master certificate

2011-10-25 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Tom De Vylder wrote: > > > Puppetca is now called "puppet cert". > > Correct me if I'm wrong but it can only generate client certs. > > If you don't have an SSL dir, puppet cert --generate will generate the new CA fo

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

2011-10-25 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] Intermittent Error 400 catalog failure

2011-11-01 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Len Rugen wrote: > I have one host, the only one using this class, where it occasionally gets > the following error. I'd guess this happens 1/3 of the time, but seems to > work for several runs, then fail for several runs. > > Could not retrieve catalog from remot

Re: [Puppet Users] Clearing delayed job failures in dashboard

2011-11-01 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Steven L. Seed wrote: > I have a ton of delayed job failures in my dashboard under background > tasks. They are mostly failed imports of report yaml files that were > deleted. There are over 4 of them so I can't use the "Mark all as read" > button because it

Re: [Puppet Users] file Problem after 2.7.6 Upgrade

2011-11-02 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:20 AM, R.I.Pienaar wrote: > > > - Original Message - > > Hello List, > > > > I´ve update to 2.7.6 (server + clients, from 2.7.1) after reading the > > last CVE, now I´ve got a problem with copying a file > > to different releases/architectures using a single state

Re: [Puppet Users] vmware player interference - no support for http method POST

2011-11-02 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Craig White wrote: > > err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: > No support for http method POST > warning: Not using cache on failed catalog > You must be running a newer version agent than your master is. -- You received this

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: help with err: Could not find node

2011-11-02 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:01 PM, jcbollinger wrote: > > > On Nov 2, 12:19 pm, Jeff wrote: > > Update: It was indeed a permissions issue with regard to the external > node > > classifier. I simply moved the puppet-dashboard directory out of /root > and > > put it in /opt and everything works fine n

Re: [Puppet Users] vmware player interference - no support for http method POST

2011-11-03 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Craig White wrote: > > On Nov 2, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Craig White > wrote: > > > > err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Clearing delayed job failures in dashboard

2011-11-03 Thread Nigel Kersten
t-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs -- You received

Re: [Puppet Users] can we alter the 30-min run time?

2011-11-03 Thread Nigel Kersten
from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to t

Re: [Puppet Users] can we alter the 30-min run time?

2011-11-03 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Randall Hansen wrote: > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Nigel Kersten > wrote: > > > In your puppet.conf agent block: > > ... > > # The maximum time to delay before runs. Defaults to being the same > as the > > # run i

Re: [Puppet Users] can we alter the 30-min run time?

2011-11-05 Thread Nigel Kersten
y to true, they'll then wait a random amount of time up to "splaylimit" before they *actually* perform the run. The default setting for "splay" is off, so you won't see this behavior unless you explicitly turn it on. Does that make more sense? > > On Nov

Re: [Puppet Users] can we alter the 30-min run time?

2011-11-06 Thread Nigel Kersten
being able to connect if they want to is a good one though. I'd love it if you filed this as a feature request though Piavlo, it's important to capture this somewhere outside the mailing lists. -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs -- You received this message because you are s

Re: [Puppet Users] why puppet template erb convert On to true, Off to false?

2011-11-07 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 1:45 PM, midair77 wrote: > Dear all, > > I have a parameterized class and I have my ECN in perl as followed: > > classes{'myclass'} = { "abc" => On,}; > > and in my template erb: > > SecRuleEngine <%= abc %> > > > > When I applied this to my puppet agent, I would then

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: why puppet template erb convert On to true, Off to false?

2011-11-07 Thread Nigel Kersten
erl ENC. Can you run your ENC by hand and paste the YAML output of the node definition like this? e.g. /path/to/enc nodename and you should get the YAML output. -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups &quo

Re: [Puppet Users] Using a defined function in another class?

2011-11-08 Thread Nigel Kersten
@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs -- You received

Re: [Puppet Users] can I use puppet for security configuration check in centos

2011-11-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Ohad Levy wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 4:00 AM, modversion wrote: >> hi all,can I use puppet for security configuration check in centos ? >> 1.check the kernel version whether great than 2.8.18.237-1 or not. >> 2.check the glibc,systemtap and udev version whe

Re: [Puppet Users] Knowing if a file is managed by puppet

2011-11-15 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Nan Liu wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:38 AM, chaica wrote: >> I'm looking for a simple way to check if a file on a client (where >> puppetd is running) is managed by puppet. At this time, I have to put >> a comment on the file and have to run a puppetd -to --

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: What is the offical variable scope best practice?

2011-11-16 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 8:03 AM, flex wrote: > Very thanks for your detailed explanation :) > > For the last question, what doubt me is only fact variables in a template > which is invoked by a define will throw the warning, > if the template is invoked by a class, everything is ok. > Use it as

Re: [Puppet Users] working thru tutorial

2011-11-16 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Matthew O'Connor wrote: > That fixed it. > > Oh, I think I see what's going on: > > When I run `puppet httpd.pp`, it runs `ps` and finds a process with > `httpd` in the name and so concludes the service is running. If I rename > the script to something else then

Re: [Puppet Users] PE 2.0 server and regular stock puppet client

2011-11-22 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 5:08 AM, T.J. Yang wrote: > Hi, All > > I am having puppet client side error message when building a 10 nodes PE > 2.0 demo site to experience the new dashboard features. > The only puppet(+mcollective) client works is that one come with PE 2.0 > installation on Ubuntu 10

Re: [Puppet Users] PE 2.0 server and regular stock puppet client

2011-11-22 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 5:49 PM, T.J. Yang wrote: > On Tuesday, November 22, 2011 10:41:54 AM UTC-6, Nigel Kersten wrote: > >> >> 2. How do I prepare an expected puppet+mcollective agents on Ubuntu ? >>> >> >> You should use the PE agent install on U

Re: [Puppet Users] PE 2.0 and open source puppet

2011-11-22 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 5:53 PM, T.J. Yang wrote: > Is there a feature comparsion between the two ? > http://puppetlabs.com/puppet/compare/ > for example, I like the "Live Management" in PE 2.0 dashboard. > Will this feature avaiable in open source dashboard one ? > > No, this is only in PE, n

Re: [Puppet Users] file type creating directory instead of file

2011-11-25 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] cannot find a module in plain sight...

2011-11-25 Thread Nigel Kersten
e only version of the adminscripts::getvpsnodes class that exists in any of your modulepath components? Anything unusual about the adminscripts/manifests/init.pp in this specific module? This doesn't look related, but I'm curious about: source => "puppet://puppet/syscrip

Re: [Puppet Users] cannot find a module in plain sight...

2011-11-25 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Peter Berghold wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > >> >> As an aside, this was an awesome way to post a module autoload problem >> Peter, showing the filesystem layout and the manifest content

Re: [Puppet Users] cannot find a module in plain sight...

2011-11-27 Thread Nigel Kersten
reciated. http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/issues/new If you're definitely seeing modules fail to parse, with no errors being thrown, and then the class subsequently can't be found, please bug report, as that's definitely a bug. You shouldn't be completely "

Re: [Puppet Users] cannot find a module in plain sight...

2011-11-27 Thread Nigel Kersten
uot; and you have to go look blindly to figure >> it out. This is somewhere that puppetlabs could improve things greatly. >> > > On Nov 27, 2011, at 7:28 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > If there's a parse error in the manifests, that will be shown, but only > each time

Re: [Puppet Users] Uninstall Puppet and Facter from OSX

2011-11-28 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Alexander Fortin < alexander.for...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm a new Mac user and a while ago I installed puppet (2.6.7) + facter > (1.5.8) from tarballs provided by puppetlabs.com on my Lion machine. > > Now, I'd like to go for gem install and get puppe

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Using puppet+augeas to modify multiple files

2011-11-28 Thread Nigel Kersten
he augeas postfix_main.aug lens that listed the extra ldap templates as > matching a wildcard, at this point augeas started working correctly. > > > > Something else I discovered is that augeas has no error handling of any > kind - if it doesn't recognise a file as matching one of the

Re: [Puppet Users] How to import variables from another manifests/file??

2011-12-02 Thread Nigel Kersten
$my_var1 = "myvar1" } and include the class "settings", from other classes you can refer to it as: $settings::my_var1 Does that help? I noticed you used the word "import". The most frictionless way to use Puppet these days is to avoid import, and to instead structur

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: How to import variables from another manifests/file??

2011-12-02 Thread Nigel Kersten
gt; > > Does that help? > > > > I noticed you used the word "import". The most frictionless way to use > > Puppet these days is to avoid import, and to instead structure your > classes > > in modules, and use the autoloader and "include" classes r

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: puppet master under passenger locks up completely

2011-12-02 Thread Nigel Kersten
Jo Rhett > jrh...@company.com > (415) 999-1798 > > -- > Jo Rhett > Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and > other randomness > > > -- > Jo Rhett > Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and > other

Re: [Puppet Users] Chmoding files in directory with around 33000 files is slow

2011-12-02 Thread Nigel Kersten
ups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs -- You received this message bec

Re: [Puppet Users] the slow crawl towards death

2011-12-02 Thread Nigel Kersten
ocessed: 497 Uptime: 44m 41s > PID: 20342 Sessions: 1Processed: 0 Uptime: 13m 14s > PID: 20358 Sessions: 1Processed: 54 Uptime: 13m 13s > PID: 18098 Sessions: 1Processed: 854 Uptime: 35m 46s > > On Dec 2, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: > > On D

Re: FIXED: [Puppet Users] the slow crawl towards death

2011-12-02 Thread Nigel Kersten
et that sorted for the bug report. -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs -- 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, sen

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: How to import variables from another manifests/file??

2011-12-03 Thread Nigel Kersten
upposed to do? Or I'm still missing something? Cheers!! > > You want to use $zmfs::settings::l_dir You're fully qualifying the variable, so you need the "full path" to it, including the name of the module it lives in. -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: How to import variables from another manifests/file??

2011-12-05 Thread Nigel Kersten
eck in the manifest. Does any one know what's > going wrong? > > Cheers, > San > > > > > > You want to use $zmfs::settings::l_dir > > > > You're fully qualifying the variable, so you need the "full path" to it, > > including the name of th

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