Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Standalone Behavior

2010-08-17 Thread mohit chawla
Puppet version is 0.25.5 on Debian Squeeze. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:43 AM, alcy mohit.chawla.bin...@gmail.comwrote: If I do 1) puppet --modulepath=/home/abc/puppet/modules OR 2) puppet --modulepath=/home/abc/puppet/modules --manifest=/home/abc/ puppet/site.pp (...where site.pp has

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Standalone Behavior

2010-08-17 Thread Dan Bode
the puppet executable expects one of the following: path to manifest file puppet code passed to stdin with the -e options, it accepts puppet code to execute. when you call puppet code without one of these options, it is patiently waiting for code from STDIN. What behavior are you

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Standalone Behavior

2010-08-17 Thread mohit chawla
I am sure I didn't make this up, but I was under the impression that either it will autoload the default site.pp (under /etc/puppet/manifests) or the one mentioned with the --manifest option. So, essentially I thought just the modulepath option (with or without the explicit --manifest option)

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Standalone Behavior

2010-08-17 Thread Dan Bode
Hi, On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:50 AM, mohit chawla mohit.chawla.bin...@gmail.com wrote: I am sure I didn't make this up, but I was under the impression that either it will autoload the default site.pp (under /etc/puppet/manifests) or the one mentioned with the --manifest option. So,

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Standalone Behavior

2010-08-17 Thread mohit chawla
Dan, yes I know I could do that, and in fact that's what I was doing (that is, simply do a puppet /path/to/manifest-that-could-just-be-site.pp) but yes, that article and occurrences elsewhere misled me. Appreciate your help, I am just trying to learn. Thanks and apologies for being a bit