[Puppet Users] Hiera Puppet backend - search order question

2012-02-25 Thread Lars Francke
Hi! I'm testing Hiera for the first time and so far it is very pleasant. I'm looking very much forward to it being integrated into Puppet. So far I've got one question: I have a class ssh::server::install which is getting a parameter from Hiera. I'm using the yaml and puppet backends. I also

[Puppet Users] Multiple runs needed to update configs?

2012-02-25 Thread Mike Knell
Hey folks, I've got a fairly basic out-of-the-box puppetmaster/puppet setup (out of the box on Ubuntu, that is), but am running into a bit of an odd problem with updating clients. The first time a host runs Puppet, and every time I change anything in the configs on the server, the agent has to

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet on RedHat - Manage Kernel Modules ?

2012-02-25 Thread Markus Falb
On 24.2.2012 17:02, Dan White wrote: Can puppet manage kernel customization on RedHat ? I have some third-party gahrbaj that needs its own kernel level driver to work. And, or course, every time the kerner version bumps up, it breaks until you rebuild the custom stuff into the new kernel.

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: roolback to previouse configuration

2012-02-25 Thread ruslan usifov
Thanks jcbollinger for detailed answer For many resource types, another alternative to to purge unmanaged resources via the 'Resources' meta-resource type. I misunderstand what you talking about? Could you share some links? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [Puppet Users] Multiple runs needed to update configs?

2012-02-25 Thread Markus Falb
On 25.2.2012 20:11, Mike Knell wrote: The first time a host runs Puppet, and every time I change anything in the configs on the server, the agent has to run once and abort for each included class (module, thing..) on the machine I'm trying to configure before it finally just works after 'n'

Re: [Puppet Users] Issues with Puppet 2.7.10: recommendation to stop using it

2012-02-25 Thread Matthaus Litteken
Khory, Good point! I've moved the 2.7.10 dmg to downloads.puppetlabs.com/puppet and added a dmg for 2.7.11. -matthaus On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Khoury Brazil khoury.bra...@gmail.com wrote: Matthaus, No problem. Another question, if you don't mind: Should the dmg at

Re: [Puppet Users] Change user password only on systems where they exist

2012-02-25 Thread Romeo Theriault
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 21:30, Steve Shipway s.ship...@auckland.ac.nz wrote: We have a system here that automatically resets the root password (amongst others) when they are 60 days old, and stores the new password in a central encrypted location.  To do this, we have a custom fact that

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Change user password only on systems where they exist

2012-02-25 Thread Romeo Theriault
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 04:04, jcbollinger john.bollin...@stjude.org wrote: Do you want merely to reset the password and then ignore subsequent changes, or do you intend to keep the password fixed to the new value?  If the former then Puppet isn't the right tool for the job. Instead, you want