Re: [Puppet Users] Knowing if a file is managed by puppet

is distributed as a Vimball, which works well in (most? all?) Linux flavours of Vim, but you may run into support problems in other OS's (such as OpenBSD, *grumble grumble*). That said, tangledstrings does exactly what it's supposed to do: act as a very handy warning layer. -- Daniel Maher With listening

Re: [Puppet Users] Different paths based on environment

very nice. Just out of curiousity, what is it that you don't like about your current solution ? -- Daniel Maher If the master dies and the disciple grieves, the lives of both have been wasted. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group

Re: [Puppet Users] DNS Zone serial numbers

figure out a good way to do this with puppet. Any thoughts? Either a ridiculous erb template or a relatively simple custom function would do the trick, though either way you'll have to write some Ruby. -- Daniel Maher « makin' plans now to live on Mars 'cuz I got Earth on lock. » -- You

Re: [Puppet Users] Organizational best practices / examples

? It's a surprisingly good strategy. :) I realise this is only a small element of what you're asking for, but I am also curious to know if anybody else out there has any sort of simple rules that can applied in order to preserve sanity. -- Daniel Maher « makin' plans now to live on Mars 'cuz

Re: [Puppet Users] Composing a text file with Puppet

if something actually changes. Please help, thanks. Hello, I'm not entirely sure if I understand your use-case properly; however, for all instances of text-file manipulation, I have found the concat module to be _extremely_ useful. https://github.com/ripienaar/puppet-concat -- Daniel Maher

Re: [Puppet Users] Step by step guide to setting user passwords

On 08/02/2011 09:52 PM, Jfro wrote: I'm new to Puppet but have searched this group and Puppet docs for how to set up user passwords using puppet. I haven't found a clear answer about setting user passwords. I understand that it is a security risk to send plain text passwords via Puppet.

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet master and puppet client running very slow

wish to do the same for the master daemon - that will give you a much better idea of where along the process any potential hangs are occurring. Good luck ! -- Daniel Maher « makin' plans now to live on Mars 'cuz I got Earth on lock. » -- You received this message because you are subscribed

[Puppet Users] implementing a 1-to-many exported resource only once ?

config of node infra. Can this be done ? Is this realistic ? Is there another approach that would be better ? I would greatly appreciate any and all commentary. Thank you. -- Daniel Maher « makin' plans now to live on Mars 'cuz I got Earth on lock. » -- You received this message because you

[Puppet Users] best way to ensure (yum) package repository freshness ?

question is this : what have other Puppet admins done in order to ensure that a target machine has the freshest local dbcache before attempting to install a package ? Thank you. -- Daniel Maher dma AT witbe DOT net The Internet is completely over. -- Prince -- You received this message because

[Puppet Users] best practice for removing a module maintained resources from a system ?

::no »), but this seems ridiculous, and is an administrative pain besides. What sorts of approaches might there be to make this for manageable ? Thank you all. -- Daniel Maher dma AT witbe DOT net The Internet is completely over. -- Prince -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: best practice for removing a class maintained resources from a system ?

be included. Very good, thank you for your commentary ; assuming no other contradictory advice, i will continue writing ::no-style classes across the board. -- Daniel Maher dma AT witbe DOT net The Internet is completely over. -- Prince -- You received this message because you are subscribed

[Puppet Users] issue # 4345 (puppet_dashboard pluginsync)

with the issue. Thank you. [1] http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4345 [2] http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4345#note-8 -- Daniel Maher dma AT witbe DOT net The Internet is completely over. -- Prince -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group

[Puppet Users] certificate problem ; puppetca can't find cert request ?

with the certificates of all the clients again. I'm running puppet 0.25.5 on CentOS 5.5 x86_64. Any ideas ? Thank you all. -- Daniel Maher dma AT witbe DOT net The Internet is completely over. -- Prince -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To post

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: puppet error on cron w/ complex timing

On 09/29/2010 03:31 PM, Radek wrote: maybe this will help: minute = 2-57/5, Lovely, thank you. -- Daniel Maher dma AT witbe DOT net The Internet is completely over. -- Prince -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To post

Re: [Puppet Users] best way to include a variable in many modules ?

there was already a particular module. :P -- Daniel Maher dma AT witbe DOT net The Internet is completely over. -- Prince -- 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

Re: [Puppet Users] best way to include a variable in many modules ?

many levels of scope (as you have) without proper internal documentation. :) Thanks for the idea ! -- Daniel Maher dma AT witbe DOT net The Internet is completely over. -- Prince -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To post

Re: [Puppet Users] best way to include a variable in many modules ?

at a higher level ? Thank you for your continued commentary on this topic. -- Daniel Maher dma AT witbe DOT net The Internet is completely over. -- Prince -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To post to this group, send email

Re: [Puppet Users] best way to include a variable in many modules ?

of variables to use in this way. -- Daniel Maher dma AT witbe DOT net The Internet is completely over. -- Prince -- 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

[Puppet Users] best way to include a variable in many modules ?

other ways to go about it, so i am curious : for Puppet, what is the best practice solution ? Thank you all for your time and consideration. -- Daniel Maher dma AT witbe DOT net The Internet is completely over. -- Prince -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [Puppet Users] Easiest way to create named pipes?

I need to use mkfifo in an exec? Pretty sure you need to mkfifo in an exec. -- Daniel Maher dma AT witbe DOT net The Internet is completely over. -- Prince -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To post to this group, send email

Re: [Puppet Users] UK Meet-up?

On 09/14/2010 03:25 PM, R.I.Pienaar wrote: Doubt there's enough traction here for too focused events :( A Europe-based Puppet Camp would probably go over well ; i mean, us Europeans use Puppet, too. :) -- Daniel Maher dma AT witbe DOT net The Internet is completely over. -- Prince -- You

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet system deployment hanging ..

# don't install the yum-updatesd package -yum-updatesd Or the equivalent in whatever your deployment system is... -- Daniel Maher dma AT witbe DOT net The Internet is completely over. -- Prince -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To post

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet system deployment hanging ..

on the DNS servers that appeared first in the (puppet-controlled) resolv.conf of our machines. Puppet initialized just fine, but sat and waited for DNS resolution (read: timeout) at each step, which took forever. Might want to check into that, too. -- Daniel Maher dma AT witbe DOT net The Internet

Re: [Puppet Users] networking on centos

for you. -- Daniel Maher dma AT witbe DOT net The Internet is completely over. -- Prince -- 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

[Puppet Users] ensure = running an init script that isn't actually a service ?

, and not a particular service that sits in memory. Granted, the effects of the script can be known - is puppet smart enough to figure out what effect service network * ultimately has on the system, or is this sort of a happy accident, or yet something else entirely ? Thank you. -- Daniel Maher dma

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Newbie question - package installation

that difficult. :) $ createrepo -d /path/to/files/ Then let an httpd serve /path/to/files/ and you're set. I daresay it's actually _easier_ than the other options that the OP is suggesting, since Puppet already knows how to work with Yum and RPMs. -- Daniel Maher dma AT witbe DOT net

Re: [Puppet Users] Getting started

://docs.reductivelabs.com/#getting_started The Puppet Language Tutorial is excellent as well : http://docs.reductivelabs.com/guides/language_tutorial.html -- Daniel Maher dma AT witbe DOT net The Internet is completely over. -- Prince -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [Puppet Users] Monit module that supports both monitrc and monit.conf

the appropriate filename. See the following item in the documentation : http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/language_tutorial.html#case_statement -- Daniel Maher dma AT witbe DOT net The Internet is completely over. -- Prince -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: subscribing a service to multiple files ?

in question relates solely to the HTTPd service, and wouldn't exist on a system that didn't have said service, then it could easily be part of the httpd class. User preference, ultimately. -- Daniel Maher dma PLUS puppet AT witbe DOT net The Internet is completely over. -- Prince -- You received