[Puppet Users] Re: Interesting permissions issue with nagios_* providers

2012-02-03 Thread windowsrefund
The trick is to export a file resource which matches the target parameter of the Nagios_ type. The exported file resource should require the Nagios_ resource so everything works upon collection. I'm actually writing an article for Linux Journal on this exact issue :) Adam -- You received this me

[Puppet Users] Re: Interesting permissions issue with nagios_* providers

2012-02-03 Thread windowsrefund
The trick is to export a file resource which matches the target parameter of the Nagios_ type. The exported file resource should require the Nagios_ resource so everything works upon collection. I'm actually writing an article for Linux Journal on this exact issue :) Adam -- You received this me

[Puppet Users] Odd behavior with hiera 0.3.0

2012-02-09 Thread windowsrefund
$ cat /etc/hiera.yaml --- :hierarchy: - %{operatingsystem} - common :backends: - yaml :yaml: :datadir: /tmp/hieradata $ cat /tmp/hieradata/Debian.yaml --- kitty : 'Handsome' $ cat /tmp/hieradata/common.yaml --- kitty : 'Evil' $ facter operatingsystem Debian $ hiera -d kitty DEBUG: Thu F

[Puppet Users] Re: Odd behavior with hiera 0.3.0

2012-02-09 Thread windowsrefund
Excellent. I didn't realize this behavior of the standalone hiera binary. Thanks again. -- 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 emai

[Puppet Users] hiera-redis

2012-02-23 Thread windowsrefund
A Redis backend for Hiera http://github.com/reliantsecurity/hiera-redis enjoy! -- 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 p

[Puppet Users] Re: @@file tricks..

2012-03-05 Thread windowsrefund
This is exactly how I handle things. -- 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. F

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet Sites. Your thoughts?

2012-05-10 Thread windowsrefund
On May 10, 12:44 pm, Daniel Sauble wrote: > >    - Securely add nodes to your deployment without manually signing >    certificates on the CA... >       - ...so that you can have the advantages of autosigning without its >       security problems. > I'm about to engage on a similar effort and w

[Puppet Users] hiera-redis 0.2.0

2012-05-30 Thread windowsrefund
This updated version allows for improved interaction with Redis hashes https://github.com/reliantsecurity/hiera-redis http://rubygems.org/gems/hiera-redis Now it is possible to use the hiera() function to lookup a value from a corresponding key within a Redis hash like so: $coffee = hiera('coff

[Puppet Users] Re: Hiera Tutorials

2012-06-28 Thread windowsrefund
Brilliant initiative! -- 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. For more options,

[Puppet Users] Re: Hiera Tutorials

2012-06-28 Thread windowsrefund
Are you sure Hiera defaults to /etc/hiera.yaml and not /etc/puppet/ hiera.yaml? -- 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 pu

[Puppet Users] OpenVZ support in Virt module

2011-07-21 Thread windowsrefund
Reliant Security funded some new work by Carla Souza that has extended what's available within puppet to manage virtual machines. The Puppet virt module provides the configuration and correct activation of virtual machines with multiple hypervisors ensuring consistency and reproducibility for depl

[Puppet Users] Re: Modules for Solaris

2011-07-21 Thread windowsrefund
> > - What packages? > This might become a nightmare... there are different packages repositories, > blastwave, openCSW, Sunfreeware... , to make modules that manage the same > software from different sources might be a troublesome and I would like to > stick to one. Does this makes sense? What's t

[Puppet Users] Re: Modules for Solaris

2011-07-21 Thread windowsrefund
On Jul 21, 2:19 pm, Aaron Grewell wrote: > The pkgutil provider comes with the OpenCSW Puppet package on Solaris in > Puppet 2.6, and is in 2.7 by default.  It works quite well. > Even better. I'm not up on things because I'm fortunate enough to be migrating my entire footprint over to Debian G

[Puppet Users] has_template() for choosing between templates

2011-07-26 Thread windowsrefund
All, I just wrote a function which allows me to choose between templates. This makes working with templates very similar to choosing between static files when passing multiple arguments to the source attribute. https://github.com/windowsrefund/puppet-tools Very interested in any feeback. Best

[Puppet Users] How to use parsedfile for more than name

2011-08-04 Thread windowsrefund
All, I'm working on a provider which uses ParsedFile and am running into an issue when I use anything more complicated than record_line :parsed, :fields => %w{name} If I try to use (for example) :fields => %w{foo, bar, baz}, my content ends up in my target file but every run adds another line. I

[Puppet Users] sudoers type

2011-08-30 Thread windowsrefund
Would anyone here like to be able to manage their sudoers bits with a native type rather than using static files or ERB templates? I have the beginnings of something over at https://github.com/windowsrefund/puppet-sudoers and would really appreciate involvement from the community. It does not do

[Puppet Users] Re: eggdrop-puppet-notificator

2011-08-31 Thread windowsrefund
I went a slightly different direction and wrote cinch-imap in order to view my incoming nagios alerts when I'm lurking in my internal irc channel. If anyone is interested, the bits can be found at http://rubygems.org/gems/cinch-imap Best, Adam -- You received this message because you are subscri

[Puppet Users] Re: Is package gem and provider gem usage in one puppet run possible?

2011-11-25 Thread windowsrefund
I came across a similar chicken/egg scenario when I was writing a custom package provider which needed to leverage a gem that I knew did not exist on the system. Here's how I solved it in my provider: def gem_dependency(name, package = nil) raise Puppet::Error, "Required 'name' argument must

[Puppet Users] My ssh tunnels get no love from exec

2011-11-27 Thread windowsrefund
I'm working on a sweet little module to manage ssh tunnels using Net::SSH and daemons. Before I try to add a service provider in order to manage daemons, I figured I'd just exec and am running into a very strange situation. First, here is a simple proof of concept involving 3 small files: (Please

[Puppet Users] Re: My ssh tunnels get no love from exec

2011-11-27 Thread windowsrefund
No fix yet but I see a small typo in my original post. > Daemon.run('/tmp/foo.rb') should be Daemons.run('/tmp/foo.rb') -- 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 un

[Puppet Users] Re: My ssh tunnels get no love from exec

2011-11-27 Thread windowsrefund
For reasons that are clearly beyond me, it's now clear that /tmp/ foo.rb is being run as root despite the controller script running as 'akosmin'. I don't get it :/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email

[Puppet Users] Re: Recommended/Best Practise directory structure for a multi domain setup

2011-11-28 Thread windowsrefund
Using a unique branch per site is probably the wrong move since it really doesn't consolidate anything. All it does is move all the redundancy a bit further upstream. A better solution is to put more thought into your source tree's directory structure in order to support site-specific bits where ne

[Puppet Users] Re: My ssh tunnels get no love from exec

2011-11-28 Thread windowsrefund
Looks like this is related to rvm and the fact that the user's environment is not sourced when puppet changes user context. -- 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 un

[Puppet Users] Re: Does someone have a working config of nginx+passenger for Puppet

2011-12-13 Thread windowsrefund
nginx bits... server { server_name puppet; listen 8140 default ssl; client_max_body_size 10M; passenger_enabled on; passenger_set_cgi_param HTTP_X_CLIENT_DN $ssl_client_s_dn; passenger_set_cgi_param HTTP_X_CLIENT_VERIFY $ssl_client_verify; root /opt/nginx/html/puppet-production/publi

[Puppet Users] Re: Database calls in puppet manifests

2012-01-06 Thread windowsrefund
On Jan 6, 10:25 am, Jeff Sussna wrote: > (How) do folks handle situations where puppet variables need to be > populated from dynamic database queries? Most folks do not. However, some have spawned a framework called hiera. By default, hiera uses a yaml backend but it can certainly be extended t

[Puppet Users] Re: Exported resources: how to avoid duplicate definitions?

2012-01-06 Thread windowsrefund
On Nov 17 2011, 5:51 am, Martijn Grendelman wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to 'unique-ify' a collection of resources? > > Suppose that nodes export '@@nagios_hostgroup' resources for hostgroups > that they want to be a member of. The Nagios server node collect those: > >   Nagios_hostgroup <<||

[Puppet Users] is anyone using a tool to diagram their manifests?

2010-05-20 Thread windowsrefund
Despite taking great care to keep my manifests clean and logical, my code is growing both in size and complexity. That said, I'm starting to wonder if there are any tools I can use that would run through my entire tree and display some user friendly map showing the relationships between all the cla

[Puppet Users] Re: Six Puppet Questions

2010-05-20 Thread windowsrefund
> > That makes sense, but do you then manage your puppetmaster via puppet as a > normal client from then on?  It would make me nervous. > I'm a big fan of this. I have several pieces carved out in my puppet module including: puppet::client - installs and manages the puppet client puppet::master

[Puppet Users] Re: Six Puppet Questions

2010-05-20 Thread windowsrefund
> * Does anyone have experience with puppet in the cloud?   There really is no such thing as "the cloud". It's just the latest buzz phrase used to describe... networked computers. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this

[Puppet Users] Re: is anyone using a tool to diagram their manifests?

2010-05-20 Thread windowsrefund
> > you mean like "puppetd --graph" to produce dot files? > --graph doesn't seem to be valid. Can you elaborate? Thanks -- 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 u

[Puppet Users] Re: is anyone using a tool to diagram their manifests?

2010-05-20 Thread windowsrefund
> > you mean like "puppetd --graph" to produce dot files? > --graph doesn't seem to be valid. Can you elaborate? Thanks -- 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 u

[Puppet Users] Re: is anyone using a tool to diagram their manifests?

2010-05-20 Thread windowsrefund
Thanks for the tip. I never knew about this feature. I can see how this might be useful but I'm looking for something that shows the relationship of classes and defines rather than the resources that result from their use. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gro

[Puppet Users] Re: is anyone using a tool to diagram their manifests?

2010-05-21 Thread windowsrefund
> I'll try to find time to dust it off over the weekend and post it to > the list (no promises though). > > Trevor Thank you very much. Looking forward to checking that out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group

[Puppet Users] Re: is anyone using a tool to diagram their manifests?

2010-06-22 Thread windowsrefund
Hello Trevor, Just wondering if you've had a chance to look at this again. All the best, Adam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group,

[Puppet Users] Zone type fails on opensolaris nv_134

2010-09-24 Thread windowsrefund
I'm running 0.25.4 patched with Martin's iptype (3399) fix. The zone type appears to be unable to create zones on Opensolaris nv_134. I'm thinking this is related to the fact that nv_134 dropped support for sparse zones. During my testing, I've tried to work around this by not using the inherit att

[Puppet Users] Re: Zone type fails on opensolaris nv_134

2010-09-24 Thread windowsrefund
Thanks for the lead. I remember this coming up around the same time as 3399 and have been able to avoid it entirely by simply not using ensure. That said, this feels like a different issue. On Sep 24, 1:22 pm, Bryan Horstmann-Allen wrote: > > You may be running into this too: > -- You receive

[Puppet Users] Re: pkgutil package provider (solaris)

2010-11-03 Thread windowsrefund
Are there any plans to retrofit this into 0.25.x? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googleg

[Puppet Users] Behavior of local modules and their included facts

2011-01-18 Thread windowsrefund
I've got a simple local module that I'll be compiling with the puppet binary. The module's structure is: modules/ub/ modules/ub/manifests modules/ub/manifests/init.pp modules/ub/lib modules/ub/lib/facter modules/ub/lib/facter/factery_import.rb modules/ub/manifests/init.pp is just a placeholder:

[Puppet Users] Re: Behavior of local modules and their included facts

2011-01-18 Thread windowsrefund
Daniel, Thanks for the assistance. I dropped a tarball over at https://bitbucket.org/windowsrefund/temp/src/31bfb4826c7f/ub2.tar.gz after extracting, I'd be able to reproduce the problem with: cd ub2 puppet -d --modulepath=modules init.pp As for versions, here's what I'm doing:

[Puppet Users] Re: Behavior of local modules and their included facts

2011-01-18 Thread windowsrefund
Daniel, Thanks for the feedback. The doc I referred to lives at http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/plugins_in_modules.html I'll certainly try a mv lib plugins to see if it works as expected but I'm a little confused when I consider my existing source tree which does use the lib directory. Of cours

[Puppet Users] Re: Behavior of local modules and their included facts

2011-01-18 Thread windowsrefund
> Is your puppet master also an 0.25 series install, or are you using a > 2.6 master and 0.25 clients? Everything is 0.25.4 -- 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. T

[Puppet Users] Re: Behavior of local modules and their included facts

2011-01-18 Thread windowsrefund
> > No, that covers it, actually.  Your problem is that the 0.25.4 series > consult only '.../ub2/plugins/facter/*.rb' for custom facts; the > '.../ub2/lib/facter/*.rb' version didn't come in until later.  (The > 2.6 AKA 0.26 series, IIRC, but I have not checked exactly when.) > Looks like the mv

[Puppet Users] Re: Behavior of local modules and their included facts

2011-01-18 Thread windowsrefund
> > Looks like the mv lib plugins fix did not result in the fact loading. > It seems to only be possible if I point FACTERLIB at the exact path. Sorry for the false positive. All is good with using plugins rather than lib on 0.25.4 Thanks again :) -- You received this message because you are s

[Puppet Users] Unable to use facts

2011-02-10 Thread windowsrefund
I'm seeing some odd failures on my newly installed Puppet master. The manifest being served seems to be unable to use the client's facts. For the sake of troubleshooting, I've reduced the details down to a single file resource in manifests/site.pp file { "/tmp/puppet.wtf": ensure => presen

[Puppet Users] Re: facter to display all active networks

2011-02-10 Thread windowsrefund
On Feb 10, 3:59 pm, Forrie wrote: > Facter will display the values associated with network_* specific > settings.   Shouldn't there be a way to display all connected (active) > networks in one command?    For example: > > # facter networks > 192.168.1.2 > 10.0.1.1 > 10.10.23.0 > Sounds like it

[Puppet Users] Re: Unable to use facts

2011-02-10 Thread windowsrefund
On Feb 10, 8:47 pm, Mohamed Lrhazi wrote: > On a client, does facter show the fact: > As I mentioned above, facter runs fine on every client. In addition, manifests compile as expected when they're served via webrick. This situation only occurs when I serve via nginx/passenger. -- You receive

[Puppet Users] How to ignore/skip node definitions with puppetdoc?

2011-03-15 Thread windowsrefund
I've got thousands of node definitions under manifests/nodes and don't see any way to avoid documenting them when calling puppetdoc. Am I missing something? puppetdoc --all -m rdoc --modulepath modules --manifestdir manifests manifests/site.pp I've tried commenting out the lines in site.pp that i

[Puppet Users] Re: How to ignore/skip node definitions with puppetdoc?

2011-03-16 Thread windowsrefund
> > If you don't care about the manifests that are in "manifests", you can try: > > puppetdoc --all -m rdoc --modulepath modules --manifestdir /path/to/emptydir > > The idea is that puppetdoc will parse only the modules. > Thanks Brice. That gets me closer to where I want to be. Best, Adam --

[Puppet Users] Re: How to ignore/skip node definitions with puppetdoc?

2011-03-16 Thread windowsrefund
Just a heads up that the work-around discussed at the bottom of this link no longer appears to work in 2.6.6 http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/b11d412e773e581b Best, Adam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users"

[Puppet Users] Question about catalog version numbers

2011-03-31 Thread windowsrefund
Am I correct to assume that catalog version numbers should be unique across client nodes? I'm seeing duplicates used throughout my Opensolaris environment running 0.25.4 # for i in `grep 1301583608 /var/puppet.production/reports/ unknown.rb.reliant/* | awk -F: '{ print $1 }' | uniq`; do grep | twm

[Puppet Users] Re: Getting client information instantly

2011-04-13 Thread windowsrefund
Of course, you really should not be able to ssh into your boxes as root. -- 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-us

[Puppet Users] sysidcfg file on OpenSolaris 2009.06 client

2009-10-19 Thread windowsrefund
Puppet 0.24.8 on both the client and server. My zone is being created but the sysidcfg file is not being created under etc/ info: Caching catalog at /var//opt/csw/puppet/state/localconfig.yaml notice: Starting catalog run notice: //Node[labrat1]/Zone_instance[labrat1a]/zone_zfs_root/Zfs [rpool/ex

[Puppet Users] Re: sysidcfg file on OpenSolaris 2009.06 client

2009-10-19 Thread windowsrefund
Martin, Thank you for the response. Are you aware of any short term work around? Best, Adam --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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@goo

[Puppet Users] any plans to support pkgutil?

2009-10-19 Thread windowsrefund
Seems that blastwave is all about pkgutil now. Are there any plans to support this? Best, Adam --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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@g

[Puppet Users] Re: sysidcfg file on OpenSolaris 2009.06 client

2009-10-20 Thread windowsrefund
Thank you very much --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-user

[Puppet Users] Re: any plans to support pkgutil?

2009-10-21 Thread windowsrefund
Thanks so much. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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+uns

[Puppet Users] template issue: nested variables?

2009-10-29 Thread windowsrefund
I need to do something like this node foo { $iface = pcn0 ... } # the template <%= network_<%= iface %> %>/<% netmask_<%= iface %> %> The idea being that a file would be built on the client holding the value of pcn0's network/netmask Of course, I'm trying to avoid hard coding the interfac

[Puppet Users] Opensolaris: beyond zones

2009-11-12 Thread windowsrefund
Getting past zone creation, I'm curious to know how people are managing zone-specifics like users, packages, and services. Looking forward to this thread... Adam --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pupp

[Puppet Users] Re: Opensolaris: beyond zones

2009-11-12 Thread windowsrefund
On Nov 12, 11:32 am, Christopher Webber wrote: > We treat zones like normal nodes for the most part. There is a   > separate base class that is zone specific but otherwise we don't do   > things any differently. > So each zone runs a puppet client? --~--~-~--~~~---~

[Puppet Users] Re: Opensolaris: beyond zones

2009-11-12 Thread windowsrefund
On Nov 12, 11:32 am, Christopher Webber wrote: > We treat zones like normal nodes for the most part. There is a   > separate base class that is zone specific but otherwise we don't do   > things any differently. > So each zone runs a puppet client? --~--~-~--~~~---~

[Puppet Users] Re: Opensolaris: beyond zones

2009-11-12 Thread windowsrefund
That's not an option for me as I'm already planning on managing a few hundred physical nodes. Any other approaches out there? Thanks, Adam --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post

[Puppet Users] Re: Opensolaris: beyond zones

2009-11-12 Thread windowsrefund
Brian, Can you be more specific? For example, how would you go about ensuring that apache is running inside a non-global zone? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this gr

[Puppet Users] Re: Opensolaris: beyond zones

2009-11-12 Thread windowsrefund
Brian, OK so you're also running a puppet client on each virtual node. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

[Puppet Users] Re: master/slave

2009-11-13 Thread windowsrefund
You probably also want a development environment when you'll write/ test your manifests. This could be hooked into a VCS. You'll develop in a testing branch and merge your tested code into trunk. From there, you can rsync trunk over to /etc/puppet on each of your 'production' puppet masters. Pers

[Puppet Users] Help needed badly for mongrel issue

2009-12-31 Thread windowsrefund
0.25.1 installed via gem on opensolaris 2009.06 I only see this error when my puppet master is set up to use mongrel r...@puppet:~# puppetd --test info: Retrieving plugin err: /File[/var/puppet/lib]: Failed to generate additional resources using 'eval_generate': No format match the given format n

[Puppet Users] Re: Help needed badly for mongrel issue

2010-01-03 Thread windowsrefund
Both the client and server are running opensolaris 2009.06 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr..

[Puppet Users] Passenger spits back a 405

2010-01-04 Thread windowsrefund
Server OS: Opensolaris 2009.06 Client OS: Same machine Puppet: 0.25.1,REV=2009.11.16 ruby: 1.8.7,REV=2009.10.26_rev=p174 apache: 2.2 The following gems are installed: actionmailer (2.3.5) actionpack (2.3.5) activerecord (2.3.5) activeresource (2.3.5) activesupport (2.3.5) cgi_multipart_eof_fix (2.

[Puppet Users] Testing 2 variables within a template

2010-01-11 Thread windowsrefund
I can't help but think there's a cleaner way to do this: <% if has_variable?("foo") then %> <% if has_variable?("bar") then %> Both foo and bar are defined. <% end %> <% end %> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this grou

[Puppet Users] Re: Testing 2 variables within a template

2010-01-11 Thread windowsrefund
> <% if has_variable?("foo") and has_variable?("bar") then -%> > Both foo and bar are defined. > <% end -%> Perfect. Thank you very much -- 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...@googlegro

[Puppet Users] Re: How to make a module reject invalid parameter

2012-09-25 Thread windowsrefund
if !$foo { fail 'foo is missing' } -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/MikiJcuantMJ. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googleg

Re: [Puppet Users] problem with class include order

2012-09-25 Thread windowsrefund
Luke, You should really refrain from adding that bloated signature when communicating with mailing lists. It's basically a small DoS :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.go

[Puppet Users] Re: PuppetConf speakers contact info

2012-10-01 Thread windowsrefund
If the speaker's contact information has not been published, there's probably a good reason why. I'd suggest something along the lines of: "Hi, I am trying to reach ___ about their Presentation at PuppetConf. If you are __, can you please contact me off-line? I have a few questions

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: PuppetConf speakers contact info

2012-10-01 Thread windowsrefund
> > Where did you have in mind for me sending that template? > > I don't know... maybe this list? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/

[Puppet Users] The free software tarballs are now difficult to find

2012-10-12 Thread windowsrefund
Recently, there have been some changes made to the Puppetlabs website which result in the free software releases being difficult to locate and download. Visitors using the download links are taken directly to the non-free "Enterprise" option rather than being presented with an option. Personall

[Puppet Users] Re: The free software tarballs are now difficult to find

2012-10-15 Thread windowsrefund
> > That way updates are simpler for users, and development from source is > simpler for developers. > > > And yet, I haven't heard a single user say anything to the affect of "please make us jump through additional hoops in order to download the Free Software releases. In fact, this thread ex

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: The free software tarballs are now difficult to find

2012-10-15 Thread windowsrefund
This has nothing to do with being adept and also has nothing to do with PL's business model. For a Free Software zealot such as myself, the software and it's community is far more important. It was bad enough to see the business agenda decide to switch to a non-copyleft license and now we're se

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: The free software tarballs are now difficult to find

2012-10-15 Thread windowsrefund
in fact see this as a big deal. I'm simply voicing my distaste. Adam Kosmin > > Jeffrey. > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:39 PM, windowsrefund > > > wrote: > >> This has nothing to do with being adept and also has nothing to do with >> PL's busi

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: The free software tarballs are now difficult to find

2012-10-15 Thread windowsrefund
On Monday, October 15, 2012 3:38:47 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey Watts wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:20 PM, windowsrefund > > > wrote: > >> >> Nothing about RHEL has anything to do with this thread. >> > > Well, I used it as an example of a similar busin

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: The free software tarballs are now difficult to find

2012-10-15 Thread windowsrefund
> > Windows (may I call you by your first name?), you seem to forget that I > complimented your ideals before politely disagreeing. Your responses have > been disproportionate to the discussion. Right now it's my opinion that > you're more interested in ranting and raving on the Internet beh

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: The free software tarballs are now difficult to find

2012-10-15 Thread windowsrefund
Daniel, Thanks for stepping in. Do you have insight into the questions I've submitted? All the best, Adam Kosmin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet

[Puppet Users] Re: Access to the Puppet open source tarballs

2012-10-16 Thread windowsrefund
James, Thanks for the discussions and speedy resolution. Much appreciated. All the best, Adam Kosmin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/8Fc

[Puppet Users] Re: Pulling Strings with Puppet

2008-09-29 Thread windowsrefund
James, I'm really bothered by the fact that the 'ebook' contains DRM. In fact, I can't even access my purchased copy because I forgot my pass phrase. I really wish you would have taken a stand against this DRM when working on this project. Best, Adam On Sep 28, 11:56 pm, James Turnbull <[EMAIL

[Puppet Users] Re: Pulling Strings with Puppet

2008-09-30 Thread windowsrefund
mail address you ordered the ebook > with. That's what it is on mine. > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:07 PM, James Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > windowsrefund wrote: > > &g

[Puppet Users] Checking dependencies

2008-11-10 Thread windowsrefund
Hello group, Now that my manifest has grown in size and functionality, I'd really like to be able to run the code through some kind of dependency checker. For example, something that would alert me to the fact that I've set a file type's group attribute to a gid that I did not require. Thoughts?

[Puppet Users] RPMS of 0.24.7?

2008-12-22 Thread windowsrefund
Are they out there somewhere? I don't see anything on EPEL. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 fro

[Puppet Users] Re: RPMS of 0.24.7?

2008-12-22 Thread windowsrefund
Thank you On Dec 22, 10:45 am, Todd Zullinger wrote: > windowsrefund wrote: > > Are they out there somewhere? I don't see anything on EPEL. > > They'll be in epel-testing as soon as the next push is done. > > You could grab puppet and ruby-augeas > from:http:

[Puppet Users] Problem starting puppetmasterd with --servertype=mongrel

2009-01-04 Thread windowsrefund
Does anyone know what I'm missing? Starting puppetmaster: /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- mongrel (MissingSourceFile) from /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require' from /usr/lib64/rub

[Puppet Users] Re: Problem starting puppetmasterd with --servertype=mongrel

2009-01-04 Thread windowsrefund
Is this packaged? I don't see any notes about this in the UsingMongrel wiki page. Best, Adam On Jan 4, 2:11 pm, Aj wrote: > The Mongrel gem. > > Regards, > > AJ > > On 5/01/2009, at 8:05 AM, windowsrefund wrote: > > > > > Does anyone know what I

[Puppet Users] Re: Problem starting puppetmasterd with --servertype=mongrel

2009-01-04 Thread windowsrefund
Is this packaged or do I need to manually use some kind of "gem install" command? I don't see any info about this on the UsingMongrel (and related) wiki page(s). Best, Adam On Jan 4, 2:11 pm, Aj wrote: > The Mongrel gem. > > Regards, > > AJ > > On 5/01/20

[Puppet Users] Re: Problem starting puppetmasterd with --servertype=mongrel

2009-01-04 Thread windowsrefund
Never mind. I just realized I can manage this by setting the provider => gem Thanks, Adam On Jan 4, 2:22 pm, windowsrefund wrote: > Is this packaged or do I need to manually use some kind of "gem > install" command? I don't see any info about this on the UsingMongrel &

[Puppet Users] some ideas for facts

2009-01-07 Thread windowsrefund
Hello group, I've got a check defined in nagios that allows me to determine if a puppet client has not updated itself in awhile /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_file_age -f /var/lib/puppet/state/ state.yaml -w 3600 -c 4000 Now I'd like to start thinking about adding some facts and thought I'd ping

[Puppet Users] Re: some ideas for facts

2009-01-07 Thread windowsrefund
James, Thanks for pointing it out. I'm really not sure what to do with it though. Would you mind shedding some light? Best, Adam On Jan 7, 4:03 pm, James Turnbull wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > windowsrefund wrote: > > Hello

[Puppet Users] Re: Feature request runinterval + $random

2009-01-08 Thread windowsrefund
I believe the client side 'splay' option takes care of this. Best, Adam On Jan 8, 3:17 pm, Christopher wrote: > Hello... > > I have an existing puppet setup that works very well except for one > thing.  Occasionally the puppetmaster is busy and the clients tend to > "bunch up".  Then on the nex

[Puppet Users] Re: NYC Puppet Meetup

2009-01-15 Thread windowsrefund
Larry, I'm in the area and would love to attend. I'll be watching this thread for details. Adam On Jan 15, 10:10 am, Larry Ludwig wrote: > Hi All, > > We are wanting to having a Puppet Meetup in NYC on February 3th, 2009, > 6:30 PM.  Place to be determined.  Baring that my wife doesn't give >

[Puppet Users] augeas error

2009-01-15 Thread windowsrefund
augeas { "$name": context => "/files", changes => "set /etc/exports/foo bar", require => File["/etc/exports"], } As you can see, I've got a very simple resource defined for testing purposes but am seeing this error on the client. Can someone poin

[Puppet Users] Re: augeas error

2009-01-15 Thread windowsrefund
/etc/exports/dir/client = "foo.example.com" /files/etc/exports/dir/option = "rw" augtool> save /usr/share/augeas/lenses/exports.aug:17.16-19.58:Short split for concat Saving failed On Jan 15, 4:27 pm, Bryan Kearney wrote: > windowsrefund wrote: > >  a

[Puppet Users] Re: augeas error

2009-01-15 Thread windowsrefund
Thanks so much :) On Jan 15, 5:22 pm, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 02:10:57PM -0800, windowsrefund wrote: > > > Bryan, > > > Thanks so much for the pointer. I think I'm on the right track now but > > could use a hand understanding

[Puppet Users] Re: augeas error

2009-01-15 Thread windowsrefund
Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 02:10:57PM -0800, windowsrefund wrote: > > > Bryan, > > > Thanks so much for the pointer. I think I'm on the right track now but > > could use a hand understanding why I'm getting this error when > > attemp

[Puppet Users] Work in progress: Using augeas to manage /etc/exports

2009-01-16 Thread windowsrefund
I'll list current limitations but first, the code define nfs::export ( $client, $share_owner = "root", $share_group = "root", $share_mode = 755 ) { # Install package, ensure /etc/exports, manage nfs service. include nfs::server file { $name: ensure =>

[Puppet Users] Re: Work in progress: Using augeas to manage /etc/exports

2009-01-16 Thread windowsrefund
Just a quick update to report that none of the following approaches result in avoiding duplicate lines from being inserted into /etc/ exports onlyif => "get /files/etc/exports/dir != $name", onlyif => "get /files/etc/exports/dir[1] != $name", onlyif => "get /files/etc/exports/dir[last()] !=

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