I know XP isn't officially supported, but this looks like a trivial
problem that could be easily fixed.
I'm running puppet 2.7.9 and facter 1.6.4 on Windows XP SP3 with ruby
1.8.7 p357
When I run puppetd or facter, I get the error:
"Cannot run on Microsoft Windows without the sys-admin, win32-pr
> Try using ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel 334, I've seen similar problems with later
> versions.
Yes, that solves the problem. Thanks.
I'm surprised that even differences in the ruby patch level matter.
I'd read
the puppet windows wiki, which mentions ruby 1.8.7 p334, but had
assumed that
meant version 1
I've seen a couple of instances where a service resource has failed with an
error because it's
been evaluated before its corresponding package is installed. I can fix
this by adding an explicit
require to the service resource, or by just running puppet again, but I
thought that there would be
an
Thanks for the responses. The pointer to the autorequires sections in the
type reference is what
I was looking for.
It might be a good idea to add this pointer to the autorequire section in
the docs here:
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/ordering.html
This is what I read first, and it doesn'
