----- 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.

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