----- Original Message ----- > From: "Scott Anderson" <s...@torand.org> > To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 5:53:51 PM > Subject: [Puppet Users] what is this trying to tell me? > > I am setting up puppet on my boxes.. and one of my boxes gives me this > error when I run puppet agent --test > > ratbert ~ $puppet agent --test > info: Caching catalog for ratbert.in.torand.org > info: Applying configuration version '1358784048' > *err: Could not prefetch package provider 'yum': The yum provider can only > be used as root* > notice: /File[ntp.conf]/content: > > I cannot find any information on the web about this error..
you can only manage packages if you run puppet as root, you ran it as a user. -- 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, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.