Re: [Puppet Users] Dependencies between custom facts

2010-11-20 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] 2.6.x Ruby DSL

2010-11-22 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] how to use absolute path

2010-11-22 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] Re: best way to test snippets of puppet config

2010-11-23 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:26 AM, donavan wrote: > On Nov 22, 3:21 pm, "russell.fulton" wrote: >> Over the last few weeks I have several times felt the need to test out >> some small snippets of puppet code without having to have them in my >> live system. >> >> At the moment I am doing all my te

Re: [Puppet Users] Classes in templates

2010-11-23 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Stefan Schulte wrote: > I think thats near to impossible. I agree. This kind of information needs to be collected *outside* the puppet run. You could have a fact that reported the number of classes used in the previous puppet run, but that's about it. -- You

Re: [Puppet Users] quick question on declaring variables in nodes with 2.6.2

2010-11-23 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote: > tu2bg...@gmail.com writes: > > [...] > >> Apart from the node declaration (declaring in the inherited node as opposed >> to the node itself) the concept is the same. >> >> What am I missing? > > Variables in the parent node are *not* visible

Re: [Puppet Users] Parsing files at nodes

2010-11-24 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] The puppet model

2010-11-24 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Gabriel Filion wrote: > Hello, > > On 11/23/2010 12:34 PM, Dan Bode wrote: >> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Puppet_Internals >> >> The model in puppet is implemented as a directed acyclic graph (DAG). The >> vertices of the graph are resoures, the

Re: [Puppet Users] using define of different moule's manifest

2010-11-24 Thread Nigel Kersten
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[Puppet Users] Thoughts on dropping 0.24.x client support in Puppet 2.7?

2010-11-24 Thread Nigel Kersten
I mentioned this in an earlier thread, but here's a dedicated one. We made a big change between 0.24.x and 0.25.x where we moved from XMLRPC to REST. How do people feel about us dropping all XMLRPC support from 2.7.x, such that it only supported Puppet clients 0.25.x and higher? --

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

2010-11-24 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Gary Law writes: >> On 24 November 2010 23:50, Nigel Kersten wrote: >>> I mentioned this in an earlier thread, but here's a dedicated one. >>> >>> We made a big change between 0.24.x and 0.25

Re: [Puppet Users] vim syntax highlight link broken?

2010-11-24 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:08 PM, ston8r wrote: > I'm trying to grab a syntax file for vim - but it appears this link is > just a website served as plaintext. Can anyone else access this link > and get a proper download link? > > http://www.puppetlabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet.vim https://github

Re: [Puppet Users] Dependencies between custom facts

2010-11-25 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Paul Nasrat wrote: > On 20 November 2010 16:42, Nigel Kersten wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Steve Atwell wrote: >>> I need to write a custom fact that depends on the value of another >>> custom fact in a d

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

2010-11-25 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet on Windows

2010-11-25 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet on Windows

2010-11-26 Thread Nigel Kersten
pet code base and patching > I would advise against trying to use this.  Which based on your > question you probably are. > I wasn't aware of this provider at all. Are there more repositories around like this Paul? I'll investigate the provider today. -- Nigel Kersten - Puppet L

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: file content

2010-11-26 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Arnau Bria wrote: > That gave me the clue! > From doc, ensure... it talks about possible values: present, absent... > "Anything other than those values will be considered to be a symlink" For what it's worth, I consider this a bug. We should have present, absent

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Class inheritance

2010-11-29 Thread Nigel Kersten
ve got a good automated package build environment, I'm a big fan of packaging content like websites based upon tags, and then using Puppet to ensure those packages are installed. > > > Cheers, > > John > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet 2.6.3 (kick.rb) error after install

2010-11-30 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] Depending on a class from a class?

2010-12-01 Thread Nigel Kersten
ironment and > file a bug report. Then I'll redesign everything else. > > Dan > > -- > 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. >

Re: [Puppet Users] Depending on a class from a class?

2010-12-01 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Daniel Piddock wrote: >  On 01/12/10 15:03, Nigel Kersten wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:18 AM, Daniel Piddock >> wrote: >>>  On 01/12/10 09:57, Daniel Piddock wrote: >>>>  On 30/11/10 18:07, Eric Sorenson wrote: >>

Re: [Puppet Users] apply class if a file on client exists

2010-12-01 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: Puppet 2.6.4 released!

2010-12-01 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: > James Turnbull wrote: >> Due to a security issue (see recent SECURITY email) we're releasing a >> 2.6.4 release immediately. > > For those using Fedora or RHEL/CentOS, I've updated the yum repos at: > >    http://tmz.fedorapeople.org/repo/pup

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: autoloading modules

2010-12-03 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] Re: autoloading modules

2010-12-03 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Arnau Bria wrote: > On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 07:21:33 -0800 > Nigel Kersten wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Arnau Bria wrote: >> > On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 12:55:38 +0100 >> > Arnau Bria wrote: >> > >> >> Hi al

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: apply class if a file on client exists

2010-12-03 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 8:28 AM, tecneeq wrote: > > > On 1 Dez., 18:28, Nigel Kersten wrote: > >> Make a fact that reports whether or not the directory exists, and make >> the include of the class conditional on the fact value. > > Thanks, i did just that and it work

Re: [Puppet Users] Fact auto sync reloading

2010-12-03 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] Re: quick basics to install functioning ubuntu system?

2010-12-06 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] Fact auto sync reloading

2010-12-06 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Derek Yarnell wrote: > On 12/3/10 5:13 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Derek Yarnell wrote: >>> So we run puppetd as a long running ruby process on the hosts.  When we >>> update a fact that gets auto sync&

Re: [Puppet Users] Does Puppet depend on Augeas?

2010-12-06 Thread Nigel Kersten
> [1] <http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/types/augeas.html> Note that we're likely to make a shift in the future and trim down the Puppet "core", moving a lot of these extra types/providers into their own projects and release cycles, precisely to resolve some of these

Re: [Puppet Users] Does Puppet depend on Augeas?

2010-12-06 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Martijn Grendelman wrote: > On 06-12-10 16:54, Nigel Kersten wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: >>> Martijn Grendelman writes: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Th

Re: [Puppet Users] browsing puppet file server

2010-12-06 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] config_version

2010-12-07 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] puppet fileserver

2010-12-09 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] puppet fileserver

2010-12-09 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 5:38 PM, R.I.Pienaar wrote: > > > On 10 Dec 2010, at 00:55, Nigel Kersten wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Brice Figureau >> wrote: >>> On 09/12/10 21:36, Chris C wrote: >>>> I planned on moving to Passenger very so

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: File not found during puppet fileserving

2010-12-10 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] Re: some files are getting errors during source => "puppet:///..."

2010-12-10 Thread Nigel Kersten
> > modules directory in my module_path.  However, now I have several. >> > > The ones that are in modules I have added since I split my modules >> > > directories are the ones that do not work.  The old ones work even >> > > though I moved them into the new

Re: [Puppet Users] design advice on coding my first type / provider

2010-12-11 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] pp grammar test-files?

2010-12-11 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] Roadmap wrt the Ruby DSL

2010-12-11 Thread Nigel Kersten
r us. I'm very committed to the Puppet DSL. I think there are huge advantages in having a simple language for describing config management, but also recognize that for some people the Ruby DSL is a better fit. -- Nigel Kersten - Puppet Labs - http://www.puppetlabs.com -- You received th

Re: [Puppet Users] Using one fact to make another fact

2010-12-13 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] Custom Functions that runs on the Client?

2010-12-13 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] Re: File not found during puppet fileserving

2010-12-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
ment, so I'm not sure how > I'd vote. > > How are others approaching this scenario or has everyone just managed to > avoid it? > > Thanks, > > Iain > > > On 11 December 2010 12:59, Nigel Kersten wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Eri

Re: [Puppet Users] Environment specified by external nodes ignored

2010-12-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] Environment specified by external nodes ignored

2010-12-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Rameses Mss wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Ohad Levy wrote: > >> >> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Rameses Mss wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: >>> >>>>

Re: [Puppet Users] puppetmaster 100%cpu usage on 2.6 (not on 0.24)

2010-12-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] Re: puppetmaster 100%cpu usage on 2.6 (not on 0.24)

2010-12-15 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Separating puppetmaster file serving and catalogs

2010-12-15 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] Prompting fact refresh from Puppet Event

2010-12-15 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] Help with Puppet install on OS X Server

2010-12-16 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] puppetmaster 100%cpu usage on 2.6 (not on 0.24)

2010-12-16 Thread Nigel Kersten
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[Puppet Users] Re: New Employee Announcement -- Daniel Pittman joins Puppet Labs.

2010-12-16 Thread Nigel Kersten
on in the Ashes[1], [2] :( ) [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashes [2] - http://www.espncricinfo.com/the-ashes-2010-11/content/current/story/492800.html -- Nigel Kersten - Puppet Labs -  http://www.puppetlabs.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pu

Re: [Puppet Users] Referencing the same package from multiple classes

2010-12-17 Thread Nigel Kersten
he > right way but the wrong syntax? > > Thanks for any help. > > Paul > > -- > 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

Re: [Puppet Users] Help with Puppet install on OS X Server

2010-12-17 Thread Nigel Kersten
ally hung rather than just running as a daemon? Can nodes connect to it and do things? I won't be online for a little while, but if you should be able to get a hand on our IRC channel #puppet http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Irc_Channel > > > > > On Thu,

Re: [Puppet Users] Help with Puppet install on OS X Server

2010-12-17 Thread Nigel Kersten
version 2.6.4" > I'm gonna try it on a linux distro as I have no experience with it running > (or setting any nodes up), so I'm really flying blind. That looks like a working daemon to me Brian. Can you connect to it? > > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Nigel Kersten wrot

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Separating puppetmaster file serving and catalogs

2010-12-20 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > >> This is a backup plan, but I would like to do this automatically without >> needing to change the manifests. >> > > You can use a fact here in the place of the server name, then it can be > automatic. >

Re: [Puppet Users] "# Only restart if we're actually running"

2010-12-20 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Nick Moffitt wrote: > Mark Stanislav: > > Fault tolerant infrastructure should be the point. > > Absolutely, but the granularity of nagios and puppet (Every half hour? > Every ten minutes? Every five?) is simply too coarse to qualify as > fault-tolerance. Proppi

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Node syntax error

2010-12-20 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:43 PM, jcbollinger wrote: > > > On Dec 20, 11:00 am, Felix Frank > wrote: > > On 12/20/2010 05:55 PM, rjl wrote: > > Well, I'm stumped. Maybe variable substition is just not meant to work > > for node declarations. > > I could easily believe that. It doesn't make much s

Re: [Puppet Users] "# Only restart if we're actually running"

2010-12-21 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Nick Moffitt wrote: > Nigel Kersten: > > Can you use the "basic" service provider with fully-specified > > start/stop/restart commands to achieve what you need? > > Are you suggesting that I override the start command to a no

Re: [Puppet Users] Small documentation addition

2010-12-22 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Disconnect wrote: > Wait, lets see if I understand the requirements for a 5 word addition to the > documentation, from a user who doesn't already use git: > 1: go to the page below > 2: discover it requires git > 3: figure out what git is > 4: install a git client

Re: [Puppet Users] Small documentation addition

2010-12-22 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Felix Frank wrote: >> We accept many changes where people don't want to go through the >> overhead of supplying the patch themselves. >> >> If they do go to this extra effort for the project however, it's >> greatly appreciated. > > Ah, but the current "contributi

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet SSL Ciphers

2010-12-22 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > We're currently going through a PCI audit process, and an internal scan by > an auditor of our network came up with the following advisory on port 8139 > on all of our puppet servers. > Resolution: Disable weak and medium ciphers in the h

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet SSL Ciphers

2010-12-22 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: >> >> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Douglas Garstang >> wrote: >> > We're currently going through a PCI audit process, and an internal scan >

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: New Employee Announcement -- Daniel Pittman joins Puppet Labs.

2010-12-23 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Iain Sutton wrote: > What, no other Aussies? > > "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi OI". I'm a bit more in the spirit of things now the natural order of Australian cricket supremacy over England is starting to return :) Oi! Seriously though, I'm thrilled Daniel is

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet SSL Ciphers

2010-12-26 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: >> That's actually a good point. >> >> Are you running the puppet agent in daemon mode or scheduled out of cron? >> > > I'm running the p

Re: [Puppet Users] Namespacing, includes and module lookup. Bug?

2010-12-26 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Daniel Piddock wrote: > I've done a bit of poking around the issue tracker. Issue 4473 > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4473 appears to be the ticket related > to this. Unfortunately it looks like puppeteers expect this unusual name > resolution order, if t

Re: [Puppet Users] Nested Class

2010-12-27 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Patrick wrote: > > > On Dec 27, 2010, at 8:11 PM, cyrus wrote: > >> Hi: >> >> I have something like this: >> >> class xinetd { >> >>   ... some Puppet code ... >> >>  class xinetd::telnet { >>       ... some Puppet code ... >>  } >> } >> >> node 'host1' { >>     in

Re: [Puppet Users] Testing Puppet Manifests?

2010-12-28 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > First, apologies if this is a FAQ: a few weeks of searching and reading > hasn't uncovered anything particularly helpful.  I'll be happy to > summarize the results in a blog post or some more official place. > > I'm having a hard time fi

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet doesn't work over slow connections?

2010-12-29 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Adam Nielsen wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to do exactly the same thing as described on this bug report, and > I'm having exactly the same problem: > >  http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4762 Adam, can you vote or watch that bug please so we know other peopl

Re: [Puppet Users] Issues with puppet first launch

2010-12-29 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Shawn wrote: > In one screen I am running the puppet daemon. > > r...@puppetmaster:~# puppetmasterd --verbose --no-daemonize > info: Caching certificate for ca > info: Creating a new SSL certificate request for puppetmaster > notice: puppetmaster has a waiting cert

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet & Hudson CI

2010-12-29 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Scott wrote: > All, > > I'm looking for additional information regarding Puppet and Hudson. > Specifically, I am looking to automatically push successful > environment builds (say for Dev, QA, Production environments) from > Hudson to Puppet.  Thus, when a puppet c

[Puppet Users] Re: OS X package management

2010-12-29 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Sean Lazar wrote: > Hello, > > I've got puppet installed and working. I'm looking for a way to update > software on OS X desktops. I have successfully set up the appdmg package > provider, and I can update an application. How do you manage installs? I > want to upd

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Namespacing, includes and module lookup. Bug?

2011-01-03 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:40 AM, jcbollinger wrote: > > > On Dec 24 2010, 8:41 am, Daniel Piddock > wrote: > > I've done a bit of poking around the issue tracker. Issue 4473 > > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4473 appears to be the ticket > > related to this. > > No, I don't think it is. I

Re: [Puppet Users] Managing cronjobs as a file in solaris with appendifnosuchline for specific servers

2011-01-04 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Ace wrote: > I want to manage cronjobs as a " file " in solaris through puppet and > not using the puppet cron resource. > > I will be managing the file /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root. > > I want the cron file to be same across all servers except some servers > will

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Allowing puppet to drop privileges for a manifest

2011-01-05 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Jason Parrott wrote: > On Jan 4, 7:13 pm, Patrick wrote: > > On Jan 4, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Jason Parrott wrote: > > > > > > > > > Greetings, > > > > > Our environment consists of about 600 Redhat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5, > > > and soon 6 servers. We use cfengine

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Managing cronjobs as a file in solaris with appendifnosuchline for specific servers

2011-01-05 Thread Nigel Kersten
} appendifnosuchline { "ensure_foobar_in_filetest": file => "/tmp/filetest", line => "foobar", } That looks to work. > > You can however manage the attributes of the file, and could require > the > given File resource when using the defined type so t

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Managing cronjobs as a file in solaris with appendifnosuchline for specific servers

2011-01-05 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Alan Barrett wrote: > On Wed, 05 Jan 2011, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > define appendifnosuchline($file="", $line="") { > > exec { "appendline_${file}_${line}": > > path=> "/bin:/usr/bin", &

Re: [Puppet Users] Supporting tar.gz as file source

2011-01-05 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Michael Knox wrote: > It would be neat if puppet could use tar.gz's as a source, instead of just > bare directory trees. So I've lodged a feature request: > https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5786 > > Many of my manifests for applications need to cover the follo

Re: [Puppet Users] Supporting tar.gz as file source

2011-01-05 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:39 PM, John Warburton wrote: > On 6 January 2011 12:52, Nigel Kersten wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Michael Knox >> wrote: >> >>> It would be neat if puppet could use tar.gz's as a source, instead

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Managing cronjobs as a file in solaris with appendifnosuchline for specific servers

2011-01-06 Thread Nigel Kersten
relationships should be defined as class<->class, never to individual resources in a foreign class. > > > > On Jan 5, 4:12 pm, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Alan Barrett wrote: > > > On Wed, 05 Jan 2011, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > >

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet definitions and inheritance

2011-01-06 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Arnau Bria wrote: > On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:49:56 +0100 > Felix Frank wrote: > > Hi Felix, > > > > In our work, we're 4 people sharing a puppet server and puppet > > > structure. We define our definitions inside our classes, and > > > sometimes we see that some of w

Re: [Puppet Users] can a class require an other class?

2011-01-06 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 2:19 PM, R.I.Pienaar wrote: We need to retain - and recommend, document and support - the way for > classes > to set relationships between classes. This is really important to me. Classes must continue to be able to set relationships between classes. On Thu, Jan 6, 2011

Re: [Puppet Users] facter --puppet does not report "environment"

2011-01-06 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Mohamed Lrhazi wrote: > Is it normal that "facter --puppet" does not show the environment > variable? is there a way to have it include it? facter --puppet shows the facter facts, plus any that have been delivered by puppet and pluginsync. "environment" isn't a fa

Re: [Puppet Users] can a class require an other class?

2011-01-07 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 3:26 AM, R.I.Pienaar wrote: > > > - Original Message - >> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 2:19 PM, R.I.Pienaar < r...@devco.net > wrote: >> >> >>> imho the right solution is a combination of the require and include >>> keywords,resources requiring classes used extremely spari

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Managing cronjobs as a file in solaris with appendifnosuchline for specific servers

2011-01-07 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Ace wrote: > Can you please state an example explaining how relating classes would > execute one class before another? class foo { require "bar" } > > On Jan 6, 3:15 pm, Nigel Kersten wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Ace

Re: [Puppet Users] facter --puppet does not report "environment"

2011-01-07 Thread Nigel Kersten
it's exposed as a global variable. > > > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: >> facter --puppet shows the facter facts, plus any that have been >> delivered by puppet and pluginsync. >> >> "environment" isn't a fact by default. Y

Re: [Puppet Users] can a class require an other class?

2011-01-07 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:10 AM, R.I.Pienaar wrote: > the overall point is there are features that are not designed in a way I > believe has everyones needs in mind and certainly hasnt had community input. I have to admit I was absent from the community when parameterized classes were introduced

Re: [Puppet Users] Exactly how do people replace include with parametrised classes?

2011-01-07 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:57 PM, R.I.Pienaar wrote: > I totally agree and the new design for external variables - which I dont think > has been shared with the community for comment yet - is a good replacement for > extlookup last time I saw what was planned. The *only* reason that this hasn't be

Re: [Puppet Users] Inheriting doesn't work with files?

2011-01-08 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 2:58 AM, Adam Nielsen wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got two classes.  One installs and configures the web server lighttpd, > and the other installs and configures Mailman. > > Both these classes need to copy configuration files into the same directory, > but I can only get light

Re: [Puppet Users] My external node classifier script is totally ignored

2011-01-08 Thread Nigel Kersten
Is between "" exactly what you're printing out? = --- YAML --- classes: - geodns::production::backend environment: production name: z01-06-02 parameters: puppet_server: z01-06-02 == You shouldn't have the first line there, and testing shows it's not

Re: [Puppet Users] My external node classifier script is totally ignored

2011-01-08 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Cosimo Streppone wrote: > In data 08 gennaio 2011 alle ore 20:07:20, Nigel Kersten > ha scritto: > >> Is between "" exactly what you're printing out? >> >> = >>  --- YAML >>  --- >>

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Considerations for puppet/cluster to manage 6000 hosts.

2011-01-09 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 14:18, Patrick wrote: > >> You'll need one or more mysql servers if you use storedconfigs.   >> Storedconfigs can be useful, but will drastically increase the server CPU >> usage and will require a mysql backend.  You

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet's direction in theory?

2011-01-11 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > So, I started with puppet about two years ago (December 2008).  At > the time, I was under the impression that the list of Types would > grow a lot (i.e. > http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/type.html ).  In fact, > the file ty

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Clients requesting classes

2011-01-11 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Bruce Richardson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 02:09:27AM -0800, Exinferis wrote: >> But what we really want to achieve is not to register every node in >> our master configuration (hostnames can totally vary so no wildcard >> matching), but to give the nodes th

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: race conditions in using "svn update" in puppetmaster's /etc/puppet directory?

2011-01-11 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:34 PM, donavan wrote: > On Jan 3, 1:34 pm, James Ralston wrote: >> So, here's my question: if you are currently using the "svn update" >> approach to manage /etc/puppet on the puppetmaster, have you taken >> conscious steps to help avoid a race condition? > > A late vot

[Puppet Users] Fwd: [Puppet-dev] Proposal: move parameter/property validation from master to agent

2011-01-11 Thread Nigel Kersten
This is a reasonably important thread that I think is of interest to the -users list as well as -dev. I'm happy to take feedback from -users and migrate it to -dev if people don't want to go through the work of subscribing to the dev list. If you do want to, you can do that here: http://groups.g

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Considerations for puppet/cluster to manage 6000 hosts.

2011-01-11 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 2:45 PM, DaveQB wrote: > We had trouble scaling with 400+ nodes. Puppet server is a VM on an > ESX cluster with 3.5GB of ram and 1.5GB of swap but would regularly > kick in OOM which would kill off most if not all of the 10 > puppetmaster instances. > We felt scheduling a r

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Problems with autoloading modules

2011-01-13 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Arnau Bria wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:39:28 -0800 (PST) > luke.bigum luke.bigum wrote: > >> Just to give you some examples of auto loading complex modules with >> multiple classes and how that relates to class names: >> >> modules/puppet/init.pp => include pup

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Multiple packages installation in one yum call

2011-01-13 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Stephane wrote: > You could do something like following: > $wantedpackages  = [ "perl-DBI", "perl-DBD-MySQL" ] > package { $wantedpackages: ensure => installed } > > In one call, we install 2 packages. That will actually create two resources that are installed sep

Re: [Puppet Users] How to add ubuntu ppa

2011-01-13 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Kevin Beckford wrote: > Now, I noticed the yumrepo, but this is of little use today, I need to add > an ubuntu ppa ( a few really ) to my installation.  How would this be done? >  Is there a provider that can do this? > I searched for one, and saw an answer dating

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