Generally when I see weird errors like this with users/group nscd has gotten in my way. Might be worth disabling nscd (and making sure its really off) then trying this again.
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:33 AM, shadyabhi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > This is precisely what I am observing. > > [root@index11 ~]# puppet resource group logstash ensure=present > notice: /Group[logstash]/ensure: created > group { 'logstash': > ensure => 'present', > } > [root@index11 ~]# puppet resource user logstash ensure=present > err: /User[logstash]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Could > not create user logstash: Execution of '/usr/sbin/useradd -M logstash' > returned 9: useradd: group logstash exists - if you want to add this user > to that group, use -g. > > user { 'logstash': > ensure => 'absent', > } > [root@index11 ~]# > > How do I fix this? I want to avoid not using execs. :) > > Thanks. > > -- > Cheers, > Abhijeet R > http://blog.abhijeetr.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > puppet-users+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<puppet-users%[email protected]> > . > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/**group/puppet-users?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
