Re: [Puppet Users] User type password_max_age not working

2010-11-11 Thread Daniel Pittman
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Re: [Puppet Users] preferred directory structure for multiple environments

2010-11-11 Thread Daniel Pittman
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Re: [Puppet Users] syntax for class names

2010-11-11 Thread Daniel Pittman
] Like the English language, puppet isn't that pure, and you can work around this in a whole bunch of ways. Pure-ruby manifests in 2.6 might be a way to do that, for example. -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100

Re: [Puppet Users] syntax for class names

2010-11-11 Thread Daniel Pittman
wouldn't be a terribly hard extension to write one, however. :) Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [Puppet Users] Managing components in an high availability environment?

2010-11-10 Thread Daniel Pittman
better (but harder) way to achieve the results. Writing custom facts is actually pretty trivial, FWIW, so doesn't add too much overhead to the whole process. (At least, nothing notable compared to the effort of getting an HA system in the first place. ;) Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel

Re: [Puppet Users] RFC: Make file content specification methods consistent.

2010-11-01 Thread Daniel Pittman
that requires puppet gaining the ability to fetch arbitrary content anyway; without that added there isn't much new complexity here. -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received

Re: [Puppet Users] Uppercase Class Parameters Don't Work - Is this expected?

2010-10-27 Thread Daniel Pittman
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Re: [Puppet Users] Questions regarding workflow

2010-10-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
that. If that assumption is incorrect please let me know. :) -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users

Re: [Puppet Users] Questions regarding workflow

2010-10-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
Joel Merrick joel.merr...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote: The other is to use puppet to perform the work, and to use the PuppetCommander[3] mcollective plugin.  This allows you to schedule puppet runs from a central service

Re: [Puppet Users] Accessing Facter in other languages than Ruby?

2010-10-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
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Re: [Puppet Users] Accessing Facter in other languages than Ruby?

2010-10-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
Nigel Kersten ni...@explanatorygap.net writes: On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 5:23 AM, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote: Matthew Macdonald-Wallace li...@truthisfreedom.org.uk writes: On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 00:44 -0700, Yushu Yao wrote: [...] I think what you probably want is 'facter --yaml

Re: [Puppet Users] Helping us prioritize issues.

2010-10-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
of watchers in terms of how things are prioritised? Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users

Re: [Puppet Users] Failing to startup after install

2010-10-23 Thread Daniel Pittman
: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Puppet_Red_Hat_Centos They better integrate and support the whole thing, and will make it easier to get updates in future. Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707

Re: [Puppet Users] obtaining stdout information from client configuration executions

2010-10-04 Thread Daniel Pittman
something goes wrong, not when it goes right. Otherwise puppet will rapidly overwhelm you with reports and you will never notice the problems. :) Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Duplicating web servers

2010-10-01 Thread Daniel Pittman
management tool, though, to head-start building the puppet side of things. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [Puppet Users] Nagios Module and use of the @@ and || notation

2010-10-01 Thread Daniel Pittman
much identical to your code, but just in case. :) Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet

Re: [Puppet Users] Cron Error Notification

2010-09-30 Thread Daniel Pittman
of stuff to monitor and manage jobs. :) Daniel Footnotes: [1] Presumably OGE now that Oracle own Sun and all. :) -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message

Re: [Puppet Users] Users with puppet

2010-09-20 Thread Daniel Pittman
, and reading /etc/shadow somehow. Don't do that though. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet + APT, I am lost...

2010-09-07 Thread Daniel Pittman
of sensible proxy server... Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To post

Re: [Puppet Users] API: Get a list of servers that include a certain module/class

2010-09-07 Thread Daniel Pittman
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Re: [Puppet Users] augeas and /etc/securetty

2010-09-06 Thread Daniel Pittman
this: exec { /bin/echo ttyS1 /etc/securetty: unless /bin/grep ttyS1 /etc/securetty } I *really* don't recommend that approach. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet 2.6.1rc2 eats up a lot of memory

2010-09-02 Thread Daniel Pittman
series, and just gave up to using cron, so while I can't help solve it I can say that it isn't unique to the newer version in my experience. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons

Re: [Puppet Users] How report errors and random errors in clients

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel Pittman
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Re: [Puppet Users] Using service with a specific user

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel Pittman
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Re: [Puppet Users] Using service with a specific user

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel Pittman
doesn't for starting a daemon. Regards, Daniel The way you make the service start/stop by a specific user is to make sure the OS-standard start/stop script do su/sudo at the correct point. On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote: Matt matthieu.nant

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Dynamically generate array of system accounts

2010-08-29 Thread Daniel Pittman
Groups Puppet Users group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@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. -- ✣ Daniel Pittman

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Dynamically generate array of system accounts

2010-08-29 Thread Daniel Pittman
and I have been caught by that before. You can replace the grep, awk, echo, sed set with the more efficient: /bin/getent passwd | /bin/awk -F: '/\/home/ {printf $1 ,}' Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made

Re: [Puppet Users] Tag usage question

2010-08-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
operation, but whatever. Oh, and that can be a puppet manifest if you want to stay coherent: you can invoke puppet directly on a manifest without going through the central server, so you don't have to resort to shell commands to make it work. :) Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppetd Cron Not Running

2010-08-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
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Re: [Puppet Users] Adding User

2010-08-23 Thread Daniel Pittman
/bash, managehome = true, home = /home/$name, } } shell_user{ $arr } ? -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [Puppet Users] Tag usage question

2010-08-23 Thread Daniel Pittman
configuration non-deterministic, which makes it vastly harder to express to puppet. If you tell us why you want to do this, though, we might be able to suggest a better approach that solves your problem. :) Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppetd Cron Not Running

2010-08-23 Thread Daniel Pittman
%60+0))') $minute = fqdn_rand(59) That generates a random, but consistent, number in the 0-59 range based on the name of the host. This will give some spread, but not the complete randomness of the method above. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppetd Cron Not Running

2010-08-23 Thread Daniel Pittman
Jeff McCune j...@puppetlabs.com writes: On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote: Franck ffallat...@gmail.com writes: So I've decided to use crontab for all my puppet clients rather than the daemon.  I've set-up a puppetmaster with seven puppet clients.  I'm

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet performance test

2010-08-18 Thread Daniel Pittman
James Turnbull ja...@puppetlabs.com writes: Daniel Pittman wrote: I suggest you look to replacing webrick with one of the other options that give multiple, load balanced puppetmasters. Passenger and 0.25.* work well for me, but bugs with that have me holding off the 2.6 series for now

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet performance test

2010-08-17 Thread Daniel Pittman
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Re: [Puppet Users] puppet and cpan

2010-08-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
automatically, which will eventually break your application, I promise. ;) Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet and Andorid

2010-08-10 Thread Daniel Pittman
efficient than Ruby without any of the Android bits on ARM. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet and Andorid

2010-08-09 Thread Daniel Pittman
are in an environment radically different to anything puppet now supports.) Daniel I am *really* curious, though: what were you hoping to *do* with puppet? -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons

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

2010-07-31 Thread Daniel Pittman
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Re: [Puppet Users] exec not finding shell builtins/functions?

2010-07-29 Thread Daniel Pittman
: command = ['/bin/ls', '|' 'foo'] } will pass '|' 'foo' to the ls command, compared to: exec { foo: command = /bin/ls | foo } ...which passes it to the default system shell. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made

Re: [Puppet Users] Bootstrap

2010-07-29 Thread Daniel Pittman
, and the other related technologies yourself. Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Distributing passwd/group/shadow

2010-07-20 Thread Daniel Pittman
unavailable. FWIW, once you have puppet working it isn't too hard to have every host acting as an LDAP slave, so you don't have cross-machine dependencies. If you really need that level of capability. Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401

Re: [Puppet Users] Distributing passwd/group/shadow

2010-07-19 Thread Daniel Pittman
://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/function.html#generate Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] http://the-doors.enix.org/pipermail/daily-debian-package/2008-April/001311.html -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made

Re: [Puppet Users] replication of nodes for couchdb

2010-07-10 Thread Daniel Pittman
are aiming at the same target. Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group

Re: [Puppet Users] Recipes release management : separate test and prod

2010-07-05 Thread Daniel Pittman
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Re: [Puppet Users] how to manage apache ProxyPass

2010-07-05 Thread Daniel Pittman
miss anything: there isn't a solution shipped with puppet, but only something like the module I mention. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] http://www.devco.net/archives/2010/05/07/puppet_concat_20100507.php http://www.devco.net/archives/2010/03/12/puppet_concat_20100312.php -- ✣ Daniel

Re: [Puppet Users] Recipes release management : separate test and prod

2010-07-05 Thread Daniel Pittman
for non-puppet bits we use. -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To post to this group, send

Re: [Puppet Users] onlyif for resource type file

2010-06-28 Thread Daniel Pittman
, and there might be a much better way to do what you want. Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [Puppet Users] total control for certain resources

2010-06-17 Thread Daniel Pittman
R.I.Pienaar r...@devco.net writes: - Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote: # The puppet version of rm -rf /* Package { ensure = absent, noop = true } User { ensure = absent, noop = true } # These override the defaults package { foo: ensure = present

Re: [Puppet Users] total control for certain resources

2010-06-16 Thread Daniel Pittman
} User { ensure = absent, noop = true } # These override the defaults package { foo: ensure = present } Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received

Re: [Puppet Users] total control for certain resources

2010-06-16 Thread Daniel Pittman
R.I.Pienaar r...@devco.net writes: - Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote: Mathijs bluescreen...@gmail.com writes: For some definition-based and custom resources, I'm looking for a way to tell systems: only these should be present, the rest should be purged. Please don't run

Re: [Puppet Users] Unable to use custom type loaded from module

2010-06-11 Thread Daniel Pittman
are going to get the production stuff, not development stuff. I think the developers just committed a fix for that to a branch, ready for testing, so you might want to troll the BTS and see about testing it in your use case though. :) Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: node inheritance, variable scope, and pain.

2010-06-09 Thread Daniel Pittman
— it just had a different syntax from inheritance. (You could even write it exactly where 'node default' was defined if you want. :) Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You

Re: [Puppet Users] Managing RPM Repositories

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
of repositories on every server, and using some other mechanism to control which packages or updates are applied to your systems. Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Forge Readme standard?

2010-06-02 Thread Daniel Pittman
. They may behave differently... Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group

Re: [Puppet Users] facter values in upper case

2010-05-28 Thread Daniel Pittman
, send email to puppet-us...@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. -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net

Re: [Puppet Users] Question about templates from variables

2010-05-28 Thread Daniel Pittman
a puppet define, wrapping up the process in a way that is reasonably error-checked and in which the nasty implementation details are hidden from the end users in my sysadmin team. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made

Re: [Puppet Users] Build nginx conf dynamically (depending on the upstream machines)

2010-05-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
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Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Best-practice way of handling IP addresses

2010-05-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
. Tell the system which IP you need the service to be listening on. Otherwise, if you don't actually have a good reason, or know which IP it should be bound to, why are you trying to bind it to an IP anyhow? Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401

Re: [Puppet Users] Problems with apt package installs

2010-05-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
(and trying this out manually) the require parameter doesn't trigger the exec (so I have no idea how all these people are getting it to work *shrug*, or maybe they just think it's working...) Drop the 'refreshonly' in the apt update 'exec', and it will work. :) Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman

Re: [Puppet Users] Replace some text

2010-05-21 Thread Daniel Pittman
looked, so I don't have a specific recommendation for you. Daniel Y'see, I learned that lesson way back when cfengine provided really good tools for doing this sort of editing, and it *always* tool much longer and was much less robust than I expected... -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan

Re: [Puppet Users] getting started with puppet: overriding roles

2010-05-21 Thread Daniel Pittman
. :) Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- 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

Re: [Puppet Users] Have I found a bug with variables in nodes?

2010-05-11 Thread Daniel Pittman
to discover you have to deploy version two that meets your actually needs. -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet-module-apache

2010-05-11 Thread Daniel Pittman
. The most likely next feature for us, incidentally, will be to try and extract the parts of a VirtualHost tag that are custom, and the parts that are standard like the header, auth, logging, etc, so that we don't duplicate those in dozens of different files we install... Daniel -- ✣ Daniel

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet-module-apache

2010-05-11 Thread Daniel Pittman
Paul Lathrop paul.lath...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote: Paul Lathrop p...@tertiusfamily.net writes: I've open-sources Digg's apache module: http://github.com/plathrop/puppet-module-apache I know this isn't much more advanced

Re: [Puppet Users] Best practices for puppet-proxys

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Pittman
). Since we are starting to feel the pinch of traffic levels from running two sites over a WAN link with a single puppetmaster: Does this actually get any benefit of caching on the client, or would we need to deploy a second puppetmaster server to achieve that? Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman

Re: [Puppet Users] custom facts run three times?

2010-05-07 Thread Daniel Pittman
to have any negative effect, but since you mention it. Likewise; same versions, on Debian/Etch and Debian/Lenny. Same configuration fragments, even. Not that I care much, given how costly the rest of running puppet is. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net

Re: [Puppet Users] node inheritance, variable scope, and pain.

2010-05-06 Thread Daniel Pittman
Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu writes: Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net writes: It was, until yesterday, my naive expectation that this would work: node default{ include broken } node krosp inherits default { $value = not } class broken{ notice

[Puppet Users] node inheritance, variable scope, and pain.

2010-05-05 Thread Daniel Pittman
: Is this actually the correct behaviour as of 0.25.4? Is this every likely to change to something that doesn't suck? Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: New user: How to deploy new version of a custom RPM package?

2010-05-04 Thread Daniel Pittman
for not hating me for my failure to read for content. ;) Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[Puppet Users] puppet arrays, and selectors...

2010-05-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
can't see right now, or is this perhaps something that the language could stand enhancing? Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because

Re: [Puppet Users] New user: How to deploy new version of a custom RPM package?

2010-05-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
on: path = [/usr/bin, /usr/sbin], subscribe = ?, refreshonly = true } It does this too. :) Daniel Hint: if you find yourself using 'exec' something may well have gone wrong. :) -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707

Re: [Puppet Users] macaddress fact

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Pittman
, and are interacting with external devices. You can even fail-over traffic between the two. The right fix would be to put that poor, meaningless fact to sleep before someone mistakes it for something actually *significant*. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401

Re: [Puppet Users] HTTP Authentication type

2010-04-27 Thread Daniel Pittman
in puppet and shell, including API, which makes it pleasantly easy to migrate to. It also mirrors the main limitation of mine, as far as I can tell: is there a way I can use this to enforce only these passwords in a file? (eg: an ensure = absent for a specified file?) Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Problem using exec with vmbuilder

2010-04-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
' locale, which isn't going to work nearly as well as trying to run in it. :) Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [Puppet Users] Is this an intermediate / advanced puppet users list??

2010-04-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
are wrong to ask basic question here on the list. Is there another resource that I’ve missed that allow a guy like me get up to speed with puppet, before posting to groups like this? Nope. The community really isn't that big to justify it, either. :) Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman

Re: [Puppet Users] /etc/passwd, shadow, group, hosts

2010-04-23 Thread Daniel Pittman
? I would, simply because you reduce the list of exposed files that way. Daniel By would I mean would deploy LDAP, but if you insist, of course. -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: /etc/passwd, shadow, group, hosts

2010-04-23 Thread Daniel Pittman
CraftyTech hmmed...@gmail.com writes: On Apr 23, 7:24 am, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote: CraftyTech hmmed...@gmail.com writes: I'm new to puppet, and I'd like to know: Is there a formal best practices guide for syncing { /etc/passwd, shadow, group, hosts} across clients from

Re: [Puppet Users] Logging Exec

2010-04-23 Thread Daniel Pittman
, but I don't know for sure. [2] ...which, of course, you shouldn't, because doing that turns a remote any-user-account exploit into ownership of a second account, perhaps root, and so on. -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707

Re: [Puppet Users] Default Gateway facter problems

2010-04-20 Thread Daniel Pittman
, or of having two NICs with gateway statements. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Default Gateway facter problems

2010-04-20 Thread Daniel Pittman
donavan dona...@desinc.net writes: On Apr 19, 10:09 pm, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote: So, a simple gateway fact is essentially meaningless for our network; this is probably true of at-least-some machines on at-least-some large networks. (So, while your fact is meaningful, it isn't

Re: [Puppet Users] How to bring about serialization in puppet ?

2010-04-18 Thread Daniel Pittman
the yum command, or the scheduling of it, may cause the failure by way of some side-effect. -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [Puppet Users] Can I specify the order classes are run?

2010-04-18 Thread Daniel Pittman
, completely, totally random, and that the random order *changes* every single run. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] Some actions, like creating a file, can implicitly depend on their parent instances without you saying anything. -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net

Re: [Puppet Users] How to bring about serialization in puppet ?

2010-04-18 Thread Daniel Pittman
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Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Can I specify the order classes are run?

2010-04-18 Thread Daniel Pittman
your system into sync with your expectations. It's generally considered a best practice to spend a little time trying to get your manifests to work in as few runs as feasible. I would have just said yes. :) Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61

Re: [Puppet Users] How to bring about serialization in puppet ?

2010-04-17 Thread Daniel Pittman
] ...that, or maybe you work somewhere that does have enormously complex dependency sequences across your network, and they cannot be simplified in any way including changing the network. ;) -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made

Re: [Puppet Users] is puppet the right tool for me?

2010-04-09 Thread Daniel Pittman
-specific restrictions to serve them up safely from external files. I hope to have some acceptable solution that keeps both my needs (no manual setup) and the needs of our auditors (keep things secure) in balance, but don't presently have one. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan

Re: [Puppet Users] is puppet the right tool for me?

2010-04-08 Thread Daniel Pittman
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Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Possible options to transfer information from nodes to master?

2010-04-08 Thread Daniel Pittman
have a one-shot job like compare these files before we take 'em over to do. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [Puppet Users] Possible options to transfer information from nodes to master?

2010-04-07 Thread Daniel Pittman
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Re: [Puppet Users] is puppet the right tool for me?

2010-04-07 Thread Daniel Pittman
different you can spend all your time focused on getting the software right rather than working out how you set up this particular machine. :) Daniel Footnotes: [1] ...or, perhaps, could be configured more or less the same. -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net

Re: [Puppet Users] How to push config from master ?

2010-04-07 Thread Daniel Pittman
Bruce Richardson itsbr...@workshy.org writes: On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:54:30PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: thank you so much for the reply. i have bunch of webserver, i want to able be able run svn update to all the webserver from master. this is not what puppet specializes in. you

Re: [Puppet Users] How to push config from master ?

2010-04-07 Thread Daniel Pittman
Michael DeHaan mich...@puppetlabs.com writes: On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Bruce Richardson itsbr...@workshy.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:54:30PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: thank you so much for the reply. i have bunch of webserver, i want to able be able run svn update

Re: [Puppet Users] How to push config from master ?

2010-04-05 Thread Daniel Pittman
additionally take other actions if it changes that symlink. then, to update you need to ensure that the new version is available in svn at a new top level path, update the puppet configuration to that version, and the rest happens by magic. More or less. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet 0.25.4 passenger with 0.24.8 clients

2010-04-01 Thread Daniel Pittman
drive someone mad, and now I know to go looking if I run into the same sort of thing. I appreciate your help. No worries. :) Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You

Re: [Puppet Users] installing packages the batch mode

2010-03-30 Thread Daniel Pittman
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Re: [Puppet Users] puppet 0.25.4 passenger with 0.24.8 clients

2010-03-30 Thread Daniel Pittman
files in modules path vs the old files in modules path. Daniel At least, not on my 50-odd nodes it didn't. -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet 0.25.4 passenger with 0.24.8 clients

2010-03-30 Thread Daniel Pittman
Charles Johnson gm.johns...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote: import modules import templates import nodes Er, did you include the class that manages the MOTD file anywhere? Your debug output says no, because nothing mentions

Re: [Puppet Users] Best practises for managing secret keys with puppet?

2010-03-28 Thread Daniel Pittman
Joe McDonagh joseph.e.mcdon...@gmail.com writes: Daniel Pittman wrote: Hey Daniel, your puppet SSL keys can be used for other services as well. *nod* Sadly, we need a whole bunch of different public SSL services, including SSL services on host names and domains that we operate on the behalf

[Puppet Users] using 'define': modelling a file-like construction.

2009-12-22 Thread Daniel Pittman
stanza that fails when neither is set. Wouldn't it be wonderful if there was a standard way to express this idiom? Daniel ...now someone is gonna tell me that I missed something obvious, but that is fine with me: saving the time I waste on these is worth enough for me. :) -- ✣ Daniel

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