Re: [Puppet Users] Proper DNS configuration with Puppet

2010-01-19 Thread Trevor Vaughan
Your forward DNS name can be anything. Your reverse DNS name *must* be one of the DNS entries in your cert, the primary hostname by default. Trevor On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Forrie for...@gmail.com wrote: Puppet docs require a PUPPET server name -- which I presumed a CNAME would

[Puppet Users] Re: Proper DNS configuration with Puppet

2010-01-19 Thread jcbollinger
On Jan 18, 3:11 pm, Forrie for...@gmail.com wrote: Puppet docs require a PUPPET server name -- which I presumed a CNAME would suffice.  However, I'm finding that's not the case - as the SSL cert generated is for the actual system name pupptmasterd runs on (makes sense). The server that

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Proper DNS configuration with Puppet

2010-01-19 Thread R.I.Pienaar
hey, - jcbollinger john.bollin...@stjude.org wrote: On Jan 18, 3:11 pm, Forrie for...@gmail.com wrote: Puppet docs require a PUPPET server name -- which I presumed a CNAME would suffice.  However, I'm finding that's not the case - as the SSL cert generated is for the actual system

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Proper DNS configuration with Puppet

2010-01-19 Thread Todd Zullinger
R.I.Pienaar wrote: I'd avoid editing the sysconfig file for this purpose, it just makes running commands like puppetd --test a pain. Editing the puppet.conf is best. That's good advice. As David Lutterkort noted in #2699¹: ... the sysconfig files were created before puppet had its own

Re: [Puppet Users] Partitioning disk with Puppet

2010-01-19 Thread Michael DeHaan
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Ohad Levy ohadl...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, that's true, but in my opinion cobbler support in Puppet is lacking, that was one of the reason I've started Foreman. cheers, Ohad You may also want to look at Symbolic, which integrates Puppet, Func, and Cobbler all

[Puppet Users] best way to make puppet temporarily ignore a file?

2010-01-19 Thread jb
I'd like others to have the option to temporarily disable puppet from modify a file or directory...something along the lines of: ./something.conf.lock causes ./something.conf to NOT be modified by puppet for as long the lock file exists it'd also be nice to be able to disable an entire

Re: [Puppet Users] best way to make puppet temporarily ignore a file?

2010-01-19 Thread Paul Nasrat
2010/1/19 jb jeffb...@gmail.com: I'd like others to have the option to temporarily disable puppet from modify a file or directory...something along the lines of: ./something.conf.lock causes ./something.conf to NOT be modified by puppet for as long the lock file exists We discussed the

Re: [Puppet Users] best way to make puppet temporarily ignore a file?

2010-01-19 Thread Trevor Vaughan
As this would generally be a manual change, I would use 'chattr +i' on Linux systems. Trevor On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:14 PM, jb jeffb...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like others to have the option to temporarily disable puppet from modify a file or directory...something along the lines of:

Re: [Puppet Users] best way to make puppet temporarily ignore a file?

2010-01-19 Thread Scott Smith
Trevor Vaughan wrote: As this would generally be a manual change, I would use 'chattr +i' on Linux systems. I haven't tried, but won't this cause the client to throw an error? -scott -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To post to

Re: [Puppet Users] best way to make puppet temporarily ignore a file?

2010-01-19 Thread Trevor Vaughan
Yes. But, in theory, this is a temporary measure. If it's not, then why are you managing that file in the first place? Trevor On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Scott Smith sc...@ohlol.net wrote: Trevor Vaughan wrote: As this would generally be a manual change, I would use 'chattr +i' on

[Puppet Users] up2date + arch

2010-01-19 Thread James
I'm having an issue using package resources on RHEL 4 systems using up2date with RHN. I need to ensure that libacl.i386 is installed on a x86_64 system, however the up2date provider does not seem to like the yum syntax for specifying arch, and there doesn't seem to be any other method for doing

Re: [Puppet Users] best way to make puppet temporarily ignore a file?

2010-01-19 Thread Scott Smith
Trevor Vaughan wrote: Yes. But, in theory, this is a temporary measure. If it's not, then why are you managing that file in the first place? I monitor puppetd errors with splunk, so this could cause someone to get paged =( Good idea for those of us who don't, though :) (If I see a

[Puppet Users] Re: best way to make puppet temporarily ignore a file?

2010-01-19 Thread jb
The scenario is this: developer needs, in an emergency situation, to edit a file that is normally under puppet control (it's a conf file for our java servlet engine). I'm not around to help out, he may not have root. I'd fully want/expect this to generate a puppet error, at least in my case,

[Puppet Users] Using ruby-1.9.x with Puppet 0.25.x

2010-01-19 Thread Forrie
I read somewhere recently about problems with Puppet and Ruby 1.9. I'm wondering if this is still an issue? Thanks. -- 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

Re: [Puppet Users] best way to make puppet temporarily ignore a file?

2010-01-19 Thread Trevor Vaughan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Why not use the 'noop' metaparam? Instead of a notouch file, how about .file.noop which would simply set noop = 'true' for that run perhaps with an extended message about using a noop file. Trevor On 01/19/2010 04:37 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: On

[Puppet Users] multiple packages by the same name

2010-01-19 Thread Matthew Delves
I'm running into a problem with trying to get both an rpm and a gem installed that have the same name. Predictably, this is the mysql package. Currently my mysql class's look like: class mysql { service { 'mysql': ensure = 'running', enable = true } user { 'mysql':

Re: [Puppet Users] Partitioning disk with Puppet

2010-01-19 Thread Ohad Levy
Hi Michael, Happy to see you around puppet :) Thanks, I did see it before, I still chose to implement foreman, a few of the reasons were: 1. I need to support non RH servers (e.g. Debian and Solaris where func and friends don't play ball) 2. I wanted to have one single interface regardless on

[Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: Puppet 0.25.4 - Release Candidate 2 available!

2010-01-19 Thread James Turnbull
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You wanted release early, release often and the Puppet team has delivered! The 0.25.4 release is a maintenance release (with one important feature - pre/post transaction hooks - discussed below) in the 0.25.x branch. The release addresses a

[Puppet Users] Re: port 8139 not opening up

2010-01-19 Thread lovewadhwa
my server being on 0.24.8 and this machine on which port is not opening is on 0.25.1 The other client machines on which i have been able to open up the port are on 0.24.8. Is it because of this that port isn't opening up?Please revert.If thats the case will try with version 0.24.8 on client.

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: port 8139 not opening up

2010-01-19 Thread Ohad Levy
clients must be equal or older then the server... are you sure your setup is working? On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:39 PM, lovewadhwa lovewad...@gmail.com wrote: my server being on 0.24.8 and this machine on which port is not opening is on 0.25.1 The other client machines on which i have been