Re: [Puppet Users] auth failure under unicorn with 2.6.1rc2

2010-08-27 Thread Brice Figureau
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 15:09 -0600, Dan Urist wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:34:59 +0200 Brice Figureau brice-pup...@daysofwonder.com wrote: On 26/08/10 21:55, Dan Urist wrote: I'm trying to set up a puppetmaster under unicorn using the ubuntu maverick packages (currently at version

[Puppet Users] Change date format in puppet-dashboard

2010-08-27 Thread matonb
Is it possible to change the format of the date in puppet-dashboard, from the American style to the format the rest of the world uses? -- 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] Re: quoting special characters in puppet.conf

2010-08-27 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi Tom, That's what I tried but it doesn't help. e.g. here is what I tested again right now: diff_args = -ubB -I \$HeadURL and here are the errors that I get: err: /File[/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_state_file.pl]: Failed to retrieve current state of resource: Could not find value for

[Puppet Users] Sourcing reports from different locations.

2010-08-27 Thread Craig Dunn
It looks like puppet 2.6 loads reports from puppet/reports - is there a way to specify another location for report files so you dont have to manually copy the .rb file to /usr/lib/ruby/puppet/reports? What I'd like to do is tell puppetmasterd to also look in /usr/share/puppet-dashboard/ext/

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: quoting special characters in puppet.conf

2010-08-27 Thread Darren Chamberlain
* Amos Shapira amos.shapira at gmail.com [2010/08/27 01:06]: e.g. here is what I tested again right now: diff_args = -ubB -I \$HeadURL and here are the errors that I get: err: /File[/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_state_file.pl]: Failed to retrieve current state of resource: Could

Re: [Puppet Users] inventory of managed resources

2010-08-27 Thread Adam Winberg
i discovered by accident that i can sort of get the functionality i want by using puppets apache logs (i run puppet via apache+passenger). In the access log each attempt to fetch a file from puppets fileserver is logged, if the file is absent it logs a 404 and if it is a match a 200 return code:

Re: [Puppet Users] Change date format in puppet-dashboard

2010-08-27 Thread Rob McBroom
On Aug 27, 2010, at 3:41 AM, matonb wrote: Is it possible to change the format of the date in puppet-dashboard, from the American style to the format the rest of the world uses? I'd settle for having it display in my time zone instead of UTC. :) My dashboard installation (1.0.3) shows dates

[Puppet Users] Re: [Puppet-dev] ANNOUNCE: Facter 1.5.8rc2

2010-08-27 Thread Todd Zullinger
James Turnbull wrote: For 40 days and 40 nights Facter wandered in the wilderness sustained only by the occasional patch and bottle of Kool-Aid. Slightly less tanned and equally happy Facter 1.5.8rc2 has followed rc1 out of the desert. For those using Fedora or RHEL/CentOS, I've updated the

[Puppet Users] Re: [Puppet-dev] ANNOUNCE: Puppet 2.6.1 - Release Candidate 3 available!

2010-08-27 Thread Todd Zullinger
James Turnbull wrote: In the long Puppet tradition of fast releases and agile iteration comes the 2.6.1 release! The third release candidate is now available and is a maintenance release in the 2.6.x branch. For those using Fedora or RHEL/CentOS, I've updated the yum repos at:

[Puppet Users] can checksum be set to none on a file if content is defined?

2010-08-27 Thread John Lyman
On a file resource, if the content parameter is set and checksum is set to none, I am getting Parameter content failed: Munging failed... This appears to be a bug, but maybe I missed something in the documentation and it isn't supposed to work. cat test.pp file { /tmp/foo: checksum =

Re: [Puppet Users] Documentation contribution opportunity - Please help!

2010-08-27 Thread Rob McBroom
On Aug 10, 2010, at 10:53 PM, James Turnbull wrote: 1. The types and providers documentation (lib/puppet/types/typename.rb lib/puppet/providers/provider...) 2. The functions and metaparameter documentation (lib/puppet/parser/functions/functioname.rb) 3. The configuration reference

Re: [Puppet Users] Documentation contribution opportunity - Please help!

2010-08-27 Thread Brice Figureau
On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 10:29 -0400, Rob McBroom wrote: On Aug 10, 2010, at 10:53 PM, James Turnbull wrote: 1. The types and providers documentation (lib/puppet/types/typename.rb lib/puppet/providers/provider...) 2. The functions and metaparameter documentation

[Puppet Users] Re: Is a puppet server essential?

2010-08-27 Thread bonobo
Thank you very much. That was very helpful. --Bonobo -- 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

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Change date format in puppet-dashboard

2010-08-27 Thread Steve Nielsen
I think date format should be a configurable option. Steve On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:08 AM, matonb brett.ma...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Rob,  Your quite correct, I wasn't being very clear!  I was referring to the Daily Run status graph which shows mm-dd-yy on my dashboard (1.0.3).  And

Re: [Puppet Users] Is a puppet server essential?

2010-08-27 Thread Charles Yeomans
On Aug 26, 2010, at 10:04 PM, bonobo wrote: It appears that running a puppet server is essential. In his book Pulling Strings with Puppet, James Turnbull says: ... the node will request whatever configuration is specified for that node. The master server will then compile and deliver that

Re: [Puppet Users] Is a puppet server essential?

2010-08-27 Thread Mike Devlin
you lose all the reporting functionality, but as long as you get all your puppet manifests and files accessible by the servers you want to run puppet on (rsync, nfswhatever), you can just run puppet directly, although it now has to compile everything, even if its not needed, so its slower to

[Puppet Users] Is a puppet server essential?

2010-08-27 Thread bonobo
It appears that running a puppet server is essential. In his book Pulling Strings with Puppet, James Turnbull says: ... the node will request whatever configuration is specified for that node. The master server will then compile and deliver that configuration. [p. 25] Our firewall environment

Re: [Puppet Users] Documentation contribution opportunity - Please help!

2010-08-27 Thread Rob McBroom
On Aug 27, 2010, at 12:03 PM, Brice Figureau wrote: Yes, the documentation is embedded in the source code. You need to patch this part of the code. That's what I thought, but where are the files James mentions? I don't see `lib/puppet/types`, `lib/puppet/providers`, `functioname.rb`, etc. in

Re: [Puppet Users] Documentation contribution opportunity - Please help!

2010-08-27 Thread Brice Figureau
On 27/08/10 19:16, Rob McBroom wrote: On Aug 27, 2010, at 12:03 PM, Brice Figureau wrote: Yes, the documentation is embedded in the source code. You need to patch this part of the code. That's what I thought, but where are the files James mentions? I don't see `lib/puppet/types`,

[Puppet Users] Re: Is a puppet server essential?

2010-08-27 Thread Nikolay Sturm
On Aug 27, 4:04 am, bonobo limnsn...@gmail.com wrote: Our firewall environment is very restrictive, and there's no way a server on our publicly accessible network will be allowed to initiate a connection to a puppet server on our internal network. Another option would be to replicate your

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Change date format in puppet-dashboard

2010-08-27 Thread Rob McBroom
On Aug 27, 2010, at 2:19 PM, Rustler wrote: Yes you can - See the file environment.rb in the puppet-dashboard/config directory I changed my entry to: config.time_zone = 'Pacific Time (US Canada)' I think he was talking about the way the dates appear, not the time zone, but still,

Re: [Puppet Users] Is a puppet server essential?

2010-08-27 Thread Dan Bode
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Mike Devlin mdev...@aisle10.net wrote: you lose all the reporting functionality, but as long as you get all your puppet manifests and files accessible by the servers you want to run puppet on (rsync, nfswhatever), you can just run puppet directly, although

Re: [Puppet Users] Documentation contribution opportunity - Please help!

2010-08-27 Thread Rob McBroom
On Aug 27, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Brice Figureau wrote: They're not real filenames just pointers to where the files are. That means all files in: lib/puppet/types/*.rb lib/puppet/providers/*.rb I don't think you understand (or I don't). % ls lib/puppet/types/*.rb ls: No match. % ls

Re: [Puppet Users] can checksum be set to none on a file if content is defined?

2010-08-27 Thread Patrick
On Aug 27, 2010, at 7:07 AM, John Lyman wrote: On a file resource, if the content parameter is set and checksum is set to none, I am getting Parameter content failed: Munging failed... This appears to be a bug, but maybe I missed something in the documentation and it isn't supposed to

RE: [Puppet Users] Documentation contribution opportunity - Please help!

2010-08-27 Thread Kinzel, David
There are no directories named `types` or `providers`. There are no files anywhere in the entire repo named `typename.rb` or `functioname.rb`. Perhaps he means types as in these: lib/puppet/type/*.rb? Same goes for providers. This email communication and any files transmitted with it may

Re: [Puppet Users] Documentation contribution opportunity - Please help!

2010-08-27 Thread James Turnbull
Rob McBroom wrote: On Aug 27, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Brice Figureau wrote: They're not real filenames just pointers to where the files are. That means all files in: lib/puppet/types/*.rb lib/puppet/providers/*.rb That's my typo - mea culpa: lib/puppet/type/*.rb lib/puppet/provider/*.rb There

Re: [Puppet Users] can checksum be set to none on a file if content is defined?

2010-08-27 Thread Dan Bode
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Patrick kc7...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 27, 2010, at 7:07 AM, John Lyman wrote: On a file resource, if the content parameter is set and checksum is set to none, I am getting Parameter content failed: Munging failed... This appears to be a bug, but

Re: [Puppet Users] Documentation contribution opportunity - Please help!

2010-08-27 Thread Rob McBroom
On Aug 27, 2010, at 2:53 PM, James Turnbull wrote: Rob McBroom wrote: On Aug 27, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Brice Figureau wrote: They're not real filenames just pointers to where the files are. That means all files in: lib/puppet/types/*.rb lib/puppet/providers/*.rb That's my typo - mea culpa:

Re: [Puppet Users] Documentation contribution opportunity - Please help!

2010-08-27 Thread James Turnbull
Rob McBroom wrote: Sounds like it's mostly taken care of. Is there any need for someone to go through http://github.com/reductivelabs/puppet-docs ? Totally! Any improvements or additions to that would be gratefully received. We'd also welcome people updating the existing Markdown

Re: [Puppet Users] auth failure under unicorn with 2.6.1rc2

2010-08-27 Thread Dan Urist
I took your suggestion and tried Puppet.notice() statements in rest.rb and was able to dump out the whole request (after a crash course in ruby syntax). I didn't realize there was a mapping from the nginx config file parameters to the actual request parameters; this appears to have fixed it in

[Puppet Users] Re: can checksum be set to none on a file if content is defined?

2010-08-27 Thread John Lyman
That is the behavior I want, and I am actually using replace = false (though I didn't in my example). My only problem is that I have nodes that run in noop mode, and even though the file doesn't change, they will complain that the checksum has changed eventually. I think puppet forgets the

Re: [Puppet Users] parameterized class, external nodes?

2010-08-27 Thread Frederik Wagner
Hi, On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Jeff McCune j...@puppetlabs.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Alan Sparks aspa...@doublesparks.net wrote: How do you (if you can) represent a parameterized class reference in an external node YAML description (exec terminus)? -Alan You can't at

Re: [Puppet Users] Is a puppet server essential?

2010-08-27 Thread Patrick
On Aug 27, 2010, at 11:33 AM, Dan Bode wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Mike Devlin mdev...@aisle10.net wrote: you lose all the reporting functionality, but as long as you get all your puppet manifests and files accessible by the servers you want to run puppet on (rsync,

Re: [Puppet Users] Documentation contribution opportunity - Please help!

2010-08-27 Thread Tony G.
Is there any way to contribute translating the current docs into different languages? Thanks. On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:16 PM, James Turnbull ja...@puppetlabs.comwrote: Rob McBroom wrote: Sounds like it's mostly taken care of. Is there any need for someone to go through

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Change date format in puppet-dashboard

2010-08-27 Thread Igal Koshevoy
Regarding the timezone and date-time format discussion: we'd like to resolve this and have an issue assigned to one of the next releases. Do the details below capture the intended behavior? http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4605 Application should use the timezone and format set in a

Re: [Puppet Users] Documentation contribution opportunity - Please help!

2010-08-27 Thread James Turnbull
Tony G. wrote: Is there any way to contribute translating the current docs into different languages? We'd love to see this. What languages did you have in mind? Regards James Turnbull -- Puppet Labs - http://www.puppetlabs.com C: 503-734-8571 -- You received this message because you

Re: [Puppet Users] Is a puppet server essential?

2010-08-27 Thread John Arundel
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Thomas Bellman bell...@nsc.liu.se wrote: Running a Puppet server (puppetmasterd) is only essential if you are running Puppet in its client-server mode.  You can also run Puppet in a stand-alone mode, using the 'puppet' executable. However, then you need some

Re: [Puppet Users] Documentation contribution opportunity - Please help!

2010-08-27 Thread Tony G.
I recall someone started a translation to Chinese, I'll be happy to help with Spanish, and I've seen some French speakers into the list that might be interested. Thanks. On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:39 PM, James Turnbull ja...@puppetlabs.comwrote: Tony G. wrote: Is there any way to contribute

[Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: Facter 1.5.8

2010-08-27 Thread James Turnbull
For 40 days and 40 nights Facter wandered in the wilderness sustained only by the occasional patch and bottle of Kool-Aid. Slightly less tanned and equally happy Facter 1.5.8 has arrived! 1.5.8 is a feature and maintenance release containing a number of fixes, updates and additional tests. You