[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet reparsing puppet.conf every 24 hours - is this configurable?

2009-06-29 Thread Nigel Kersten
lt it restores the atime of a file after backing it up, which modifies the ctime of the file, which causes Puppet to think that the file has changed and reparse it. > > thanks, > > Greg > > > -- Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com System Administrator Google, Inc. --~--~---

[Puppet Users] Re: Unable to get storedconfigs to work

2009-06-29 Thread Nigel Kersten
OCAL GEMS *** > > actionmailer (2.3.2, 2.1.2) > actionpack (2.3.2, 2.1.2) > activerecord (2.3.2, 2.1.2) > activeresource (2.3.2, 2.1.2) > activesupport (2.3.2, 2.1.2) > fastthread (1.0.7, 1.0.1) > haml (2.0.9) > passenger (2.1.2) > rack (1.0.0, 0.9.1) > rails (2

[Puppet Users] Re: pkg_deploy on Macs - how to maintain "State"

2009-06-29 Thread Nigel Kersten
th the old style "/Library/Receipts" for bundled packages and the new style sqlite db for flat packages. It's still a very young project, but I really do feel that a Puppet Munki provider could give us something really quite wonderful on the Mac platform. > > Jason > >

[Puppet Users] Re: pkg_deploy on Macs - how to maintain "State"

2009-06-29 Thread Nigel Kersten
gt;> attempting an install.  Is there some sort of "receipt" that it checks >> - or does it actually USE the Receipts directory to monitor >> installation? >> >> I know I'm trying to use Puppet to maintain staff and lab computers - >> which is somewhat unconventional, but i

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet reparsing puppet.conf every 24 hours - is this configurable?

2009-06-30 Thread Nigel Kersten
ked up, but as the atime is not reset, the ctime will be left alone. Until I found that I had vague thoughts of a Puppet patch to use a checksum instead of ctime for parsed files, but this is the only time using the ctime has bothered me. > > Thanks, > > Greg > > On Jun 30, 1:5

[Puppet Users] Re: Workstations and Certs

2009-06-30 Thread Nigel Kersten
ory before the client drive gets reformatted, and restore it back >> to the drive before puppet starts up again. >> >> I'd be wary of using the same certs on multiple systems unless they were >> in an isolated environment (and possibly even then). Same reason as for >

[Puppet Users] Re: Workstations and Certs

2009-06-30 Thread Nigel Kersten
g to depend a lot on your imaging process. How is it currently done? > > -kurt > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:03 PM, engle wrote: >> > >> > Well, that is what we are doing right now. However, when

[Puppet Users] Re: Workstations and Certs

2009-06-30 Thread Nigel Kersten
may be > run is /usr/sbin/puppetca. > > That way, when the machine is reimaged, after its first boot it takes > care of the certification issue.  Then, once puppet is running on the > machine, you could have it remove the ssh key and the startup script. I like this idea. You could

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet reparsing puppet.conf every 24 hours - is this configurable?

2009-06-30 Thread Nigel Kersten
s that I don't > know what depends on that - ie. what its impact is... Maybe I submit > it as a patch and see what the powers that be think of it... > > But on the other hand, its such a minor thing that has no real impact, > so its almost not worth it... > > Greg > > On

[Puppet Users] Re: Workstations and Certs

2009-07-01 Thread Nigel Kersten
ificate(s) to client Then the client wouldn't need to ask for a certificate. > -kurt > > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Michael Semcheski >> wrote: >> > >> > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009

[Puppet Users] Re: SVN pre-commit hook known error

2009-07-02 Thread Nigel Kersten
ript. > > So, I've defined PATH var in both pre-commit and manifestch scripts but > the errors is still there. > > > Anyone knows how to solved this issue? is PATH var the only problem? > > TIA, > Arnau > > > > -- Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com Syst

[Puppet Users] Re: SVN pre-commit hook known error

2009-07-02 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Arnau Bria wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:54:44 -0700 > Nigel Kersten wrote: > > Hi Nigel, > > [...] >> FWIW, it's also just been patched recently: >> >> http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/2369 > > Bug i

[Puppet Users] Re: debian/ubuntu ruby path problem with facter 1.5.6-2

2009-07-07 Thread Nigel Kersten
t, this time it failed. > > facter 1.5.6-2 installs to /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby, which is not in > ruby's path. > > In contrast, earlier versions installed to /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/facter > > I'll probably just downgrade my facter, but this seems like an issue. > >

[Puppet Users] Re: Workstations and Certs

2009-07-10 Thread Nigel Kersten
= NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/puppetca, !/usr/bin/puppetca -- >> clean --all >>        def self.clean certname, addr >>                command = "/usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/puppetca --clean >> #{certname}" >>                #

[Puppet Users] Re: Tracking down ensure => running problem

2009-07-10 Thread Nigel Kersten
nually whether the service you are running has such a command (or you can specify a specific command using the status parameter). If you do not specify anything, then the service name will be looked for in the process table. Valid values are true, false. -- > > Thank

[Puppet Users] Re: Provider "API": delete vs. destroy

2009-07-10 Thread Nigel Kersten
t; method.  None of the > standard providers explicitly defines a "delete" method, but it > appears that some of them may acquire one by declaring :delete among > their commands. > > > > -- Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com System Administrator Google, Inc. --~--~-

[Puppet Users] Re: Provider "API": delete vs. destroy

2009-07-10 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 3:47 PM, jcbollinger wrote: > > > Nigel Kersten wrote: >> Is your :parent => Puppet::Provider::NameService::ObjectAdd ? > > No, I have not specified an explicit parent, so I get Puppet::Provider > as the superclass (which I confirmed by adding a

[Puppet Users] Re: how to add apt repository with puppet

2009-07-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
assuming you have a File["sources_list"] set up to manage your sources, and an Exec["apt_update"] to run apt-get update for you. This will run every time, but if you want the Exec to be a bit smarter, you'll need to do some logic there. I'm quite happy with r

[Puppet Users] Re: will resource noop always override puppetd

2009-07-15 Thread Nigel Kersten
changed '{mtime}Tue Jul 14 09:33:23 -0700 2009' to '{mtime}Wed Jul 15 08:05:08 -0700 2009' [...] and I've yet to get any reliable working method going for facts and plugins in modules with environments that doesn't rely upon facts

[Puppet Users] Re: Change Management Practices.

2009-07-17 Thread Nigel Kersten
ferent OS versions differently and different hardware types (workstation, laptop) differently, but the same principles all hold. Oh, and we also have matching apt repositories for the unstable/testing/stable environment suffixes, and perform simultaneous releases/promotions in apt and puppet.

[Puppet Users] Default Mac OS X package provider?

2009-07-20 Thread Nigel Kersten
he default should be the pkgdmg provider, which takes a http:// url for a pkg inside a dmg. Comments welcome.... -- Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com System Administrator Google, Inc. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goo

[Puppet Users] Re: Default Mac OS X package provider?

2009-07-20 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Jack Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: >> If you never use Puppet with Mac clients, you can stop reading now. > > More of a lurker than a user, but I'll comment anyway. > >> I believe the defau

[Puppet Users] Re: Vexed by puppet.conf

2009-07-21 Thread Nigel Kersten
petmaster accessible as "puppet" ? I seem to remember an issue with Puppet where if you had the config file such that the puppet user can't read it, it parses it, drops privileges, and then can't re-read it so it falls back to defaults. > > The only change I can think

[Puppet Users] Re: Resource ordering

2009-07-22 Thread Nigel Kersten
7;: notify => Service[foo] } >>>>    } >>>> " >>>> >>>> This takes some of the (potential) pain out of the ordering by >>>> allowing >>>> class level dependencies.  This adds dependency resolution higher >>>>

[Puppet Users] Re: cron, package and provider

2009-07-22 Thread Nigel Kersten
anacron pacakge I'm looking at doesn't supply that. You should be fine if you install crontab as well, otherwise I think we'll need an anacron provider. > > Any suggestions? > > seph > > > > -- Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com System Administrator

[Puppet Users] Re: passenger for Hardy

2009-07-22 Thread Nigel Kersten
a How do these compare to the Brightbox packages for Hardy Mark? http://wiki.brightbox.co.uk/docs:phusion-passenger -- Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com System Administrator Google, Inc. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribe

[Puppet Users] Re: passenger for Hardy

2009-07-22 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Mark Foster wrote: > > > > On Jul 22, 9:11 am, Nigel Kersten wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Mark Foster wrote: >> > Just wanted to put the word out, if you are interested in running Puppet on >> > Passenger with Ub

[Puppet Users] Re: uninstall package on ubuntu

2009-07-23 Thread Nigel Kersten
; /usr/bin/vlc >> >> >> As you can see the last two lines of the paragraph indicate VLC is >> still installed.  Googling has only produced the option of changing >> absent to purged, this returns the same results. >> >> >> I was able to successfully

[Puppet Users] Re: Default Mac OS X package provider?

2009-07-27 Thread Nigel Kersten
always set this as a default for all my OS X package resources, but this shouldn't affect you at all. > > --- > Thanks, > > Allan Marcus > 505-667-5666 > > > > On Jul 20, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > >> >> If you never use

[Puppet Users] Re: recipe for setting values in a plist on mac?

2009-08-03 Thread Nigel Kersten
when key doesn't exist. Not ideal but "delete": { exec {"defaults delete $domain $key": path => "/bin:/usr/bin", logoutput => false, onlyif => "defaults read $domain | grep -q '$key'" } }

[Puppet Users] Re: ANNOUNCE: 0.25.0 Release Candidate 1 is out!

2009-08-03 Thread Nigel Kersten
gt; > You can find a full list of the tickets closed thus far for version > 0.25.0 is at: > > http://projects.reductivelabs.com/versions/show/3 > > Regards > > James Turnbull > > - -- > Author of: > * Pro Linux Systems Administration > (http://tinyurl.com/linux

[Puppet Users] Re: ANNOUNCE: 0.25.0 Release Candidate 1 is out!

2009-08-05 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Eric Sorenson wrote: > > On Aug 3, 2009, at 8:29 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > >> And there's a Mac pkg up here: >> >> >> https://sites.google.com/a/explanatorygap.net/puppet/Home/puppet_0.25.0-rc1.pkg.tar.bz2 > > You co

[Puppet Users] LISA Config Mgmt workshop.

2009-08-06 Thread Nigel Kersten
So what's LISA like for config management talks? I've seen a few papers that came out of it that I've found less than useful, but am interested in hearing whether people think it is worthwhile to attend.... -- Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com System Administra

[Puppet Users] Re: Converting to Phusion on mac issues

2009-08-06 Thread Nigel Kersten
> So, questions: > 1) How should the permissions of files and directories in /var/puppet > look? what should be owned by puppet, and what by root? > 2) Did I do this right? > 3) Am I headed down the wrong path? Should I try mongrel instead? &g

[Puppet Users] Re: resources from specific class only to apply to a node

2009-08-11 Thread Nigel Kersten
ivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/UsingTags particularly "Classes automatically tag everything in them with the class name, so this isn't usually needed. This works the same way in nodes." -- Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com System Administrator Google, Inc. --~--~-~--~

[Puppet Users] Re: how to specify the the source directory

2009-08-12 Thread Nigel Kersten
d the documentation but cannot find the answer. Assuming you have a module called "apache" it would go in path-to-apache-module/files/httpd.conf -- Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com System Administrator Google, Inc. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received thi

[Puppet Users] Re: Dealing with timestamps

2009-08-20 Thread Nigel Kersten
not mod-time to copy the files into the actual locations your puppetmasters serve from. Or is that what you meant you didn't want to do with "I hope it isn't using checksums" ? -- Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com System Administrator Google, Inc. --~--~-~--~~--

[Puppet Users] Re: onlyif/unless vs. if

2009-08-25 Thread Nigel Kersten
l have problems. >> (In the upcoming 0.25 there is a function 'shellquote()' which can help you >> with that.) >> >> On the other hand, if you have requires or subscribes elsewhere that points >> to Exec[liveupdate-now], then those won't work if

[Puppet Users] Re: Notify someone on failure

2009-08-25 Thread Nigel Kersten
through > cron there would be a way. > > Something i just thought of was monit - which i could get to look at > the log ... but that seems to be a rather long way around... > > Any thoughts? > Cheers > chakkerz > > > -- Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com System Admi

[Puppet Users] Re: Redmine not mailing puppet-bugs?

2009-08-28 Thread Nigel Kersten
haven't seen anything go to the puppet-bugs list since that date. -- Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com System Administrator Google, Inc. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users&quo

[Puppet Users] Re: Mac OS X open ssh server refresh from puppet...

2009-08-30 Thread Nigel Kersten
> > > jobs >> > >             cmds << "-w" >> > >             did_enable_job = true >> > >         end >> > >         cmds << job_path >> > >         begin >> > >             execute(cmds) >> > >         rescue Puppet::Ex

[Puppet Users] Re: Mac OS X open ssh server refresh from puppet...

2009-08-30 Thread Nigel Kersten
:15 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > We need to re-do some of the way the service provider works. Your > solution isn't going to work for all cases. > > Apple decided to stop using the plist to store state in, and it's all > in /var now. > > Can you bug report this and assig

[Puppet Users] Re: Mac OS X open ssh server refresh from puppet...

2009-08-30 Thread Nigel Kersten
oot! :) > > I'll put in a bug report. > > /John > > On 30 Aug, 18:27, Nigel Kersten wrote: >> I should also add that you really want to be running 0.25.0rc1 for Snow >> Leopard. >> >> The package installer is broken in 0.24.8 for SnoLo as Apple

[Puppet Users] Re: Mac OS X open ssh server refresh from puppet...

2009-08-31 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 6:30 AM, grandpa wrote: > > Forgot to add that I'm running Snow Leopard... I've just had a metric crapload of work get dumped on me today, so if anyone else feels like having a look at this issue for Snow Leopard, that would be awesome. Essentially we have two main choice

[Puppet Users] Re: Mac OS X open ssh server refresh from puppet...

2009-09-01 Thread Nigel Kersten
xec/PlistBuddy -c "set :org.ntp.ntpd:Disabled false" /var/db/ > launchd.db/com.apple.launchd/overrides.plist > launchctl load "/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.ntp.ntpd.plist" 2> / > dev/null > > --- > Thanks, > > Allan Marcus > 505-667-5666 &g

[Puppet Users] Re: Mac OS X open ssh server refresh from puppet...

2009-09-01 Thread Nigel Kersten
ke to support user launchds (ie not root), but that's going to take a fair bit of design work first. On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > yep, see: > > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev/browse_thread/thread/1ff894c6af240244 > > for a pending patch. &

[Puppet Users] Re: Mac OS X open ssh server refresh from puppet...

2009-09-01 Thread Nigel Kersten
; some clients using your package. Brilliant Allan. Much appreciated. > > --- > Thanks, > > Allan Marcus > 505-667-5666 > > > > On Sep 1, 2009, at 3:30 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > >> >> so this turned out to not be as much work as I thought it could be,

[Puppet Users] Re: Using Puppet for updating Ubuntu machines over the network

2009-09-01 Thread Nigel Kersten
We use Puppet environments for unstable, testing, stable, and mirror this with our own apt repositories. Thus our sources list for a given unstable/testing/stable install matches the equivalent apt repository, with a template. We do schedule apt updates just before each puppet run. --~--~--

[Puppet Users] Re: certificate errors when file serving

2009-09-02 Thread Nigel Kersten
7;t work - thinking it was permissions based (I had > it set to 440), I set it to 640 and the problem still exists.  I'm at > a bit of a loss here. > > > -- Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com System Administrator Google Inc. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

[Puppet Users] Re: the same puppetmaster in different subnets/vlan

2009-09-04 Thread Nigel Kersten
uppetmasters. > > SSL CA -> puppetmaster is a one to one relationship. > > Just curious why do you want separate certs? > > -L > > -- > Larry Ludwig > Reductive Labs > > > > > -- Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com System Administrator Google Inc. --~--~

[Puppet Users] Mac OS X pkg for Puppet 0.25.0

2009-09-05 Thread Nigel Kersten
https://sites.google.com/a/explanatorygap.net/puppet/ https://sites.google.com/a/explanatorygap.net/puppet/Home/puppet-0.25.0.pkg.tar.bz2 Please note the issue with Facter and OS X 10.6.0 still remains. Either install Facter from source or run a version of Facter <= 1.5.4. -- Nigel Kers

[Puppet Users] Re: passenger-status gives error but passenger is working fine

2009-09-07 Thread Nigel Kersten
> > Am I hitting a bug? > > -- > Asif Iqbal > PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > > > > -- Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com System Administr

[Puppet Users] Re: Mac OS X pkg for Puppet 0.25.0

2009-09-08 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Joe McDonagh wrote: > > Nigel Kersten wrote: > > https://sites.google.com/a/explanatorygap.net/puppet/ > > > > > https://sites.google.com/a/explanatorygap.net/puppet/Home/puppet-0.25.0.pkg.tar.bz2 > > > > > > Please not

[Puppet Users] Re: failing to run apache2 with RackAutoDetect

2009-09-08 Thread Nigel Kersten
ting such a bad thing? > > > > > > -- > Asif Iqbal > PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > > > > -- Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com System Administr

[Puppet Users] Re: passenger-status error messages

2009-09-08 Thread Nigel Kersten
puppetmasterd > Listen 8140 > >SSLEngine on >SSLCipherSuite SSLv2:-LOW:-EXPORT:RC4+RSA >SSLCertificateFile > /var/lib/puppet/ssl/certs/sys-ubuntu.arl.qwestip.net.pem >SSLCertificateKeyFile > /var/lib/puppet/ssl/private_keys/sys-ubuntu.arl.qwesti

[Puppet Users] Re: accessing resource attributes

2009-09-08 Thread Nigel Kersten
e added, it's actually a small change > now. > > I guess file a feature request for it? > > -- > The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get > up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. > --Robert Frost >

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet Camp

2009-09-08 Thread Nigel Kersten
http://www.yelp.com/biz/rose-donuts-and-cafe-san-jose-3#hrid:YRcU6fUTpvLhiUmc9O-_sg/src:search/query:breakfast%20burrito > > > > > -- Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com System Administrator Google Inc. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this m

[Puppet Users] Re: Mac OS X pkgdmg provider "upgradeable"

2009-09-08 Thread Nigel Kersten
his? I know it will reinstall (and "upgrade" of > course) if I remove the /var/db/.puppet_pkgdmg_installed_puppet > that is created but this isnt really solving much afaik. > > > -- Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com System Administrator Google Inc. --~--~-~--~~

[Puppet Users] MacPorts Puppet 0.25.0 released

2009-09-10 Thread Nigel Kersten
The 0.25.0 patches for the Puppet Portfile have been integrated. Note that I've set Puppet in MacPorts to have an "openmaintainer" maintainer. This means that I'm not a bottleneck for trivial patches and version updates if anyone else wishes to submit those patches. -

[Puppet Users] Re: mac & Package

2009-09-10 Thread Nigel Kersten
$foo_pkg = "foo-2009091001.dmg" package { "$foo_pkg": ensure => installed, source => "$pkg_base/foo/$foo_pkg", } > > Thanks, > -Roy > > > > -- Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com System Administrator Google Inc. --~--~-~--~~-

[Puppet Users] Re: ANNOUNCE: Facter 1.5.7rc1

2009-09-11 Thread Nigel Kersten
urnbull wrote: > > > * Bug #2415: patch for first-rev Mac OS X versions > > > > -- Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com System Administrator Google Inc. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet Camp codefest prelude

2009-09-13 Thread Nigel Kersten
qEzFJkynP7JNWia1lumXabmEx > f09dVs6JXesoN80NW4704Gvquohawf+o8HPBtW5fUyb5d0ZWrMjpNO1kh3O38LR6 > iCAeGtqByCL0Z28fWfxVnV5aMU1kMkku3r7+WBpj4dZXgYFh6oZ7GQ== > =m97U > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > > -- Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com System Administrator Google Inc. --~--~-~--~~--

[Puppet Users] Re: Installing a lot of packages

2009-09-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
usually does a much better > > job. To manage bigger installations something like satellite or even an > > own managed package repository, which you sync with the upstream updates > > you need and then run a cron only against that repository might be a > > suitable solut

[Puppet Users] Re: Do resources support some form of inheritance/prototyping?

2009-09-15 Thread Nigel Kersten
geTutorial#resource-defaults > The more elegant way would be something like this (fictive code!): > > file_prototype { > owner=root, > group=bin, > mode=754, > } > file { "file1": include file_prototype, } > file { "file2": include file_prototyp

[Puppet Users] Re: Do resources support some form of inheritance/prototyping?

2009-09-16 Thread Nigel Kersten
ile defaults in each class has made my manifests *so* much more readable > > b. > > > On Sep 16, 2:58 am, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Bostjan Skufca < > bostjan.sku...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > > > >

[Puppet Users] Re: Array of values for (exec) return?

2009-09-17 Thread Nigel Kersten
ckport. Another workaround is to or with true that we've done sometimes command => "/usr/bin/foo || true", but that's more of a sledgehammer than specifying acceptable return codes. > > TIA > > -- > John Ingersoll, Jr. > Usage: fortune -P [] -a [xs

[Puppet Users] Re: Mac Domainname and facter

2009-09-18 Thread Nigel Kersten
t; requested with the FQDN which is correct. >> >> So, where does facter get its domain name information from on the >> client. I know that Macs have a number of places where they store and >> use hostname and domainname. Which one does facter use? >> >> Thanks,

[Puppet Users] Re: Mac Domainname and facter

2009-09-23 Thread Nigel Kersten
infomation. Can you paste the full output of an ipconfig getpacket and your resolv.conf, scrubbing whatever details you need to? > > -kurt > > > > On Sep 18, 11:33 am, Nigel Kersten wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Allan Marcus wrote: >> >> > /Libr

[Puppet Users] Re: How long does the server's node cache stick around?

2009-09-28 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Tony Maro wrote: > > I tried the ignorecache=true on the clients to no avail... the server > would still send the cached node entry.  I could watch the output and > it even reported "using cached node blah blah" instead of "Compiling > node blah blah". > > I'm beg

[Puppet Users] Re: push a directory of files as part of a manifest?

2009-09-28 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:50 AM, li...@truthisfreedom.org.uk wrote: > > Hi All, > > I get the feeling I'm being really dumb here but hey, if you don't ask... ;) > > I'm setting up a puppet install for about 80 or so servers and taking a > "softly softly" approach by starting with Syslog-ng and st

[Puppet Users] Re: push a directory of files as part of a manifest?

2009-09-28 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:57 AM, li...@truthisfreedom.org.uk wrote: > > Nigel Kersten wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:50 AM, li...@truthisfreedom.org.uk >> wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I get the feeling I'm being really dumb here but hey, if y

[Puppet Users] lunch at Google on Wednesday for Puppet Campers?

2009-09-28 Thread Nigel Kersten
If you're interested in coming along for lunch at Google on Wednesday before Puppet Camp, let me know and I'll see if we can handle the load :) -- nigel --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Use

[Puppet Users] Re: puppet / works & does not work: the quantum effect

2009-09-29 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Peter Meier wrote: > Or design by convention and never put more than one class/define into > a file and extensively use puppet's autoloading feature right. ;) That's the approach I've always taken, and I haven't run into any of these class of problems so far.

[Puppet Users] Re: 0.25.x upgrade gives "Parameter notify failed"

2009-09-29 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Darrell Fuhriman wrote: > > > On Sep 29, 2009, at 10:25, Darrell Fuhriman wrote: > >> In testing the move to 0.25 (tried with both 0.25.0 and 0.25.1rc1), >> I'm now getting the following error, seemingly everywhere that >> notify/require is used: > > As an additi

[Puppet Users] Re: Mac Domainname and facter

2009-09-29 Thread Nigel Kersten
-- >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> Allan Marcus >> >> 505-667-5666 >> >> >> On Sep 22, 2009, at 5:07 PM, engle wrote: >> >> >>> So, when I issue the command: >> >> >>> ipconfig getpacket en0 >> >> >&g

[Puppet Users] Re: lunch at Google on Wednesday for Puppet Campers?

2009-09-29 Thread Nigel Kersten
ok, so anyone who wishes to come to Google for a quick squiz around and lunch, I suggest you come to my office around 11:30 to 12:00 and we'll work it out from there. http://explanatorygap.net/crap/cell is my cell. I'll pull it down from there after puppet camp. My office is at: 1500 Plymouth

[Puppet Users] Re: Running puppet as non-root => getting rid of all those ownership warnings

2009-09-30 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Brian Ferris wrote: > Just to elaborate, these warnings seem to appear whether I omit the owner > parameter or if I include the owner parameter, set to my current user > account.  I'm using something like: > > file { "${my_target_directory}": >   ensure => directo

[Puppet Users] Re: Mac OS X plist resource type spec

2009-10-05 Thread Nigel Kersten
mcx_replace=1; mcx_union_as_dictionary=0;}' mcxset . com.apple.test testkey-Raw always '{ keya=a; keyb=b; keyc=c; }' '{ output=testkey; mcx_union_as_dictionary=1;}' -- I think we should continue to support the MCX type and do a plist type completely separate

[Puppet Users] Re: Same exec but different working directories

2009-10-08 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Scott wrote: > > So I ran into a situation where I'd like to execute the same command > (make) but in 2 different working directories, anyone know how I can > do that without adding superfluous options to the exec to make it > unique? exec { "foo": command => "

[Puppet Users] Re: Best Practices Rewrite - First Draft

2009-10-12 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Paul Lathrop wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > Well, I really was meaning to get this cleaned up and put on the wiki, > but the world seems to conspire against it. First couple of times I > sat down to do it, I got Nagios pages. The last time was the real > winner, th

[Puppet Users] Re: Mac OS X plist resource type spec

2009-10-13 Thread Nigel Kersten
you read >> them? >> >> This look like it's the beginning of being able to manage MCX items >> via puppet in a more efficient manner. Awesome. Once it's ready, I can >> envision a ton of type definition libraries to manage all the common >> stuff. &g

[Puppet Users] Re: genconf generated config aborts

2009-10-13 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Paul Lathrop wrote: > > Doug, > > Remove genconfig = true from the puppet.conf file I've often wondered about the utility of having that in the generated config file, and it's bitten me several times. Is there a reason we don't strip it out? > > --Paul > > On

[Puppet Users] Re: genconf generated config aborts

2009-10-13 Thread Nigel Kersten
onfig functionality, but that when you generate a config in this manner, it doesn't include: genconfig = true so it is actually a "good working config" rather than one you have to edit before deploying :) > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: >> >

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppetmaster config

2009-10-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > > I'm getting really really frustrated with puppet. > > Why is it that when I install the puppet-server RPM, my default config > file in /etc/puppet/puppet.conf has a [puppetd] section and not a > [puppetmasterd] section? Isn't that what

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppetmaster config

2009-10-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
> > Doug. > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Douglas Garstang >> wrote: >>> >>> I'm getting really really frustrated with puppet. >>> >>> Why is it that when I

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppetmaster config

2009-10-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Douglas Garstang >> wrote: >>> >>> Can anyone in the know please help to clear this up? >&

[Puppet Users] Re: Problem distributing facts/or debugging

2009-10-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Kim Gert Nielsen wrote: > > Hi, > > can anyone using facts verify that what I'm doing should be correct ? Does this shed light on things? http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/UsingMultipleEnvironments scroll to: "Plugins and Facts" > > On Oct 13, 2009

[Puppet Users] Re: Reductive Labs people

2009-10-26 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Luke Kanies wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been hesitant to send Reductive Labs updates to the community > lists, but I've been told that not knowing who works for us makes some > communication difficult. ++ to doing this Luke. This is really useful to know. > > S

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

2009-10-27 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Martin Englund wrote: > > > > On Oct 27, 8:00 am, James Turnbull wrote: > >> 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. >> >> The release is available at: >> >> http://reductivelabs.c

[Puppet Users] puppet 0.25.1 debs done... but availability delayed.

2009-10-28 Thread Nigel Kersten
We've uploaded the 0.25.1 debs, but due to this work, it might take a little while before they appear. http://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2009/10/27/debian-ftpmaster-meeting.html It will appear here when done. http://packages.debian.org/sid/puppet Instructions for building yourself $ git clone git

[Puppet Users] Re: puppet failover

2009-10-29 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Rene wrote: > > Hi > > Today I tried to configure puppet for failover. I would like to have > two puppet masters, one active and the other not active. Then I would > migrate the IP address, and puppet would become active on the other > node. Configuration I would

[Puppet Users] Re: puppet 0.25.1 debs done... but availability delayed.

2009-10-30 Thread Nigel Kersten
They're up now by the way: http://packages.debian.org/sid/puppet The infrastructure changes around debian this week caused some delays. Normally this wouldn't take this long. On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > > On 29 Okt, 10:58, Nicolas Szalay wrote: >> >> Do

[Puppet Users] Re: How can I tell what version of puppet is installed?

2009-10-30 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Allan Marcus wrote: > > is the "rc1" or "rc2" stored anywhere in any of the puppet files? I'm not storing the changelog anywhere in the Mac packages, which should probably get resolved. At least on Debian it will be available vi zcatting /usr/share/doc/puppet/cha

[Puppet Users] Re: Passenger versions with Puppet 0.25.1 puppetmasterd

2009-11-07 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote: > > On Nov 6, 11:32 pm, Nigel Kersten wrote: >> [..] >> I'm in the middle of testing 2.2.5 now, and hit this problem. >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/phusion-passenger/browse_thread/thread

[Puppet Users] Re: Passenger versions with Puppet 0.25.1 puppetmasterd

2009-11-09 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote: >> >> On Nov 6, 11:32 pm, Nigel Kersten wrote: >>> [..] >>> I'm in the middle of testing 2.2.5 now, and hit this problem. >>

[Puppet Users] Re: Passenger versions with Puppet 0.25.1 puppetmasterd

2009-11-09 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote: > > * Nigel Kersten [091109 22:22]: >> >> On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: >> > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Christian Hofstaedtler >> > wrote: >> >>

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet Not Running chkconfig correctly.

2009-11-09 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > > So, I noticed that when adding a service to puppet, puppet is running > a chkconfig . However, as far as I can tell, puppet should be > running a chkconfig --add , otherwise the symlinks don't get > created from the service in /etc/rc.d/

[Puppet Users] Re: facter inconsistent results

2009-11-12 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Andrew Schulman writes: > > > Hi. I'm running facter 1.5.1 in Ubuntu Jaunty. facter is giving me > > inconsistent results for the operatingsystem fact: > > > $ facter operatingsystem > > Debian > > > $ facter | grep operatingsystem > >

[Puppet Users] Re: facter inconsistent results

2009-11-12 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:48 PM, lance dillon wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> >> Nigel Kersten writes: >> >> > Ugh. This is particularly sucky, and I vote this fact needs to be fixed >> > for this irres

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Multiple manifest versions?

2009-11-18 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Ohad Levy wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Scott Smith wrote: > >> >> Usng environments as a "version" of a manifest will require adding an >> environment to *Puppetmaster* every time I bump the manifest version. >> Not the client, but Puppetmaster. :)

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