Re: [Puppet Users] customizing an existing type provider, or creating a new set

2010-05-23 Thread Nigel Kersten
Have you considered just pinning this package via a file and requiring that before this resource? On May 23, 2010 3:31 PM, Hercynium sscaff...@gmail.com wrote: Good afternoon. I've just started playing with puppet, and I'm currently stuck trying to figure out how to accomplish the following: I

Re: [Puppet Users] parsing puppet YAML

2010-05-22 Thread Nigel Kersten
You can load it in Python, you just need to do a bit more extra work first. I can get you an example on Monday or whenever Comcast fix my home internet connection... On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Ohad Levy ohadl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Luke, Thats a dump of a ruby object in yaml, meaning

Re: [Puppet Users] parsing puppet YAML

2010-05-22 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Baker, Luke Jefferson bake...@missouri.edu wrote: Hey there, I’ve playing with parsing some of the yaml data that puppet creates. Has anyone had luck doing this with python or the like? It seems that in every yaml file, there is a comment at the top of

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: More External Nodes

2010-05-21 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Douglas Garstang doug.garst...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Ken Barber k...@bob.sh wrote: Douglas - what you are trying to do isn't supported in say 0.25.x without compromising. I think the discussion regarding you using external nodes

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: More External Nodes

2010-05-21 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Douglas Garstang doug.garst...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Douglas Garstang doug.garst...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Ken Barber k

Re: [Puppet Users] Replace some text

2010-05-21 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote: Marley Bacelar marleybace...@gmail.com writes: I need to replace some text in a file... there is some type, that i can pass a value and to be replace and the destination file? I know this sounds like a great idea,

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Unable to retrieve files from puppet server (Errror 400)

2010-05-17 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Abhishek abhishek.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 11, 4:57 pm, Mark Nelson m...@tardis.cx wrote: Hello I am using the following software - *Operating System: *Scientific Linux SL release 5.3 (Boron), Scientific Linux is a rebuild of Redhat

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

2010-05-17 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Dan Bode d...@puppetlabs.com wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Paul Lathrop paul.lath...@gmail.comwrote: Assuming the client has puppeted at least once against that server

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Unable to retrieve files from puppet server (Errror 400)

2010-05-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 7:55 PM, josbal joshua.bald...@gmail.com wrote: Have you found a solution to this problem? I am having the same issue after upgrading to puppet 0.25.4 and passenger. The error message im getting is: Error 400 on SERVER: Not authorized to call find on

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

2010-05-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Paul Lathrop paul.lath...@gmail.comwrote: Assuming the client has puppeted at least once against that server. This won't work for bootstrapping a client though will it? it does, the facts yaml file is created before the external node classifier is

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Unable to retrieve files from puppet server (Errror 400)

2010-05-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
--environment production on the command line or put it in the client config file? If so, then we're probably both tickling the same bug. I don't see an actual production environment defined there though... On May 15, 1:55 am, Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 7

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

2010-05-13 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Dan Bode d...@puppetlabs.com wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Dan Bode d...@puppetlabs.com wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Alan Barrett a...@cequrux.com wrote

Re: [Puppet Users] Managing Mac OS X Boxen

2010-05-13 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 9:21 AM, p.e.r.i.o.d.i.c.i.t.y p.e.r.i.o.d.i.c.i@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I'm considering switching to using puppet from radmind to manage our Mac OS X machines, and I have a few concerns. What would be the best way to manage large applications like Adobe's

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

2010-05-12 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Dan Bode d...@puppetlabs.com wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Alan Barrett a...@cequrux.com wrote: On Thu, 13 May 2010, Ohad Levy wrote: And the absolute killer: as far as I know, external node classifiers are global, not per environment. It

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

2010-05-11 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:19 PM, R.I.Pienaar r...@devco.net wrote: - Brian Gallew g...@gallew.org wrote: in nodes and have them propagate to their children, then I submit that nodes are so fundamentally broken as to make node inheritance completely useless, in which case node inheritance

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

2010-05-11 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Dan Bode d...@puppetlabs.com wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:19 PM, R.I.Pienaar r...@devco.net wrote: - Brian Gallew g...@gallew.org wrote: in nodes and have them propagate

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet-module-apache

2010-05-11 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Paul Lathrop p...@tertiusfamily.net wrote: Hey all, I've open-sources Digg's apache module: http://github.com/plathrop/puppet-module-apache I know this isn't much more advanced than what I've seen a lot of people using. Here's my proposition, though. Let's

Re: [Puppet Users] temporarily editing sudoers

2010-05-09 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Pieter Baele pieter.ba...@gmail.com wrote: We use a script to edit /etc/sudoers temporarily to provide sudo access to clients for a limited time. A cron job checks for a var and after a defined time the line is deleted. But this way, /etc/sudoers can't be

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet docs, defined types and requires.

2010-05-08 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:08 PM, James Turnbull ja...@lovedthanlost.netwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/05/10 1:43 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: I don't know if it's just me, but I find this example horribly confusing, and I'm wondering if it's just really out of date

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: [Puppet-dev] GSoC - Introducing myself

2010-05-05 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:20 PM, William Van Hevelingen wva...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everybody, I'm William and I am the other Google Summer of Code 2010 student. I will be working on a Puppet type to manage advanced provisioning and configuration of network interfaces (initially on various

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppetmaster filing up /var/log/messages

2010-05-03 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:47 AM, JoE joehil...@gmail.com wrote: Puppetmaster is filling up /var/log/messages even though logdir is set to /var/puppet/log/ and masterlog = /var/puppet/log/puppetmaster.log. There is however no file /var/puppet/log/puppetmaster.log What is logdest set to? It

Re: [Puppet Users] Simple issue with templates.

2010-05-03 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace li...@truthisfreedom.org.uk wrote: Hi all, My brain is now officially dead! I have a series of modules that have a tree layout as documented in the best practice guide. One of the directories I have is templates and in this

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet URI

2010-05-03 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Roshan Punnoose rosh...@gmail.com wrote: Oh ok, is there a doc on how to run on another webserver? (Is this the Mongrel doc?) I simply set up ssldump to log all this. Then it doesn't matter how you're running the server, and you see all the extra header stuff

Re: [Puppet Users] Watchers replaces voting...

2010-05-01 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 7:09 PM, James Turnbull ja...@lovedthanlost.netwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all Thanks to Eric Davis we can now sort issues by the number of people watching them. This should make it easier to determine who wants what and how many people

Re: [Puppet Users] status of cpan provider?

2010-04-28 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Cosimo Streppone cos...@streppone.itwrote: On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:04:30 +0200, Michael DeHaan mich...@puppetlabs.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I was just digging through the archives and found

Re: [Puppet Users] status of cpan provider?

2010-04-28 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Cosimo Streppone cos...@streppone.itwrote: On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:36:03 +0200, Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: I was just digging through the archives and found some comments

Re: [Puppet Users] Logging Exec

2010-04-23 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Douglas Garstang doug.garst...@gmail.comwrote: Is there a way to stop puppetd from logging the command line arguments passed to an Exec() ? I need to pass sensitive options, ie passwords, on the command line, and don't want them to appear in log files. You

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

2010-04-17 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Douglas Garstang doug.garst...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Jim Bala usr...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 15, 2010, at 1:30 AM, Mayank wrote: Hi,    I'm trying to manage some hosts using a single puppetmaster. I don't know why but puppet on

[Puppet Users] Request to make changes to stable Goobuntu Puppet configs

2010-04-12 Thread Nigel Kersten
http://b/issue?id=2583243 That bug gives the background as to *why*. So that clients don't end up all downloading every file at once as the RCS tags change, I'm proposing to go through modules in *stable* Puppet configurations and strip them out with the correct $Id$ tags module by module over

[Puppet Users] Re: Request to make changes to stable Goobuntu Puppet configs

2010-04-12 Thread Nigel Kersten
brain fart! That obviously wasn't meant to be for a public list :) -- 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 email to

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Request to make changes to stable Goobuntu Puppet configs

2010-04-12 Thread Nigel Kersten
is disabled from that point onwards. I dislike having a service restart simply because a dependent config file changed RCS tag but nothing else Thanks, Ohad On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 6:07 AM, Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com wrote: brain fart! That obviously wasn't meant to be for a public list

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

2010-04-08 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Dmitry V'yal akam...@gmail.com wrote: Bruce Richardson wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 12:10:07PM -0700, Dmitry V'yal wrote: Hello, I'm currently administering a vps running a dozen of php-sites. I use several scripts for deploying new sites, updating them,

Re: [Puppet Users] File Size

2010-04-08 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Paul Lathrop paul.lath...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Thomas Bellman bell...@nsc.liu.se wrote: Dan Bode wrote: I would prefer if puppet ran the sync. It would be nice to receive puppet events for any changes made via rsync

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

2010-04-07 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Dmitry V'yal akam...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm currently administering a vps running a dozen of php-sites. I use several scripts for deploying new sites, updating them, taking the backups and so on. All the system is quite fragile and error-prone. I'm

Re: [Puppet Users] Uncaught exception failed to allocate memory

2010-04-02 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 5:23 AM, Marcelo Barbudas nos...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I have a recipe that's supposed to download ree from a master and install it. It looks like:    # Install ree    file { /root/puppet-setup/ruby- enterprise_1.8.7-2010.01_amd64.deb:      source =

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet environment + fileserver

2010-04-02 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Ohad Levy ohadl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Maybe I'm missing something here, but why not just store the files in the modules? do you need to provide different access level to your modules based on environments? Can't you do this anyway in auth.conf even for files

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet environment + fileserver

2010-04-02 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Serge Dewailly serge.dewai...@openevents.fr wrote: No I don't need different access level, but it makes strange configuration if in a class (say /etc/puppet/production/manifest/test.pp) I use something like that : file{/tmp/foo:      source =

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

2010-04-01 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote: Charles Johnson gm.johns...@gmail.com writes: Daniel, I resolved the issue. One of my classes had duplicate 'ensure = ' lines. This was OK with 0.24.8, but 0.25.4 silently fails. I posted a RESOLVED about my discovery.

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

2010-03-31 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Charles Johnson gm.johns...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote: [...] Your client logs *still* show that there is no MOTD stuff being touched at all; try this on the client that should manage MOTD and

Re: [Puppet Users] REST API for puppet

2010-03-31 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Brice Figureau brice-pup...@daysofwonder.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 10:45 -0300, Gustavo Soares wrote: Ok, thanks. I'll check the code too. You can also have a look to the auth.conf file which lists most of the REST urls. I found that using ssldump to

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

2010-03-31 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Charles Johnson gm.johns...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com wrote: /etc/puppet/modules/motd/manifests/init.pp looks like this class motd {     include prodcomputenode     include prodgateway shouldn't

Re: [Puppet Users] plugin in modules - Environments - documentation?

2010-03-30 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Thomas Bellman bell...@nsc.liu.se wrote: JeFFreaK wrote: i'm stuck with the plugin in modules section. i've got 2 environments set called development and production. [...] now i wanted to have the sysctl plugin inserted in my development environment

Re: [Puppet Users] plugin in modules - Environments - documentation?

2010-03-30 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Roy Nielsen r...@lanl.gov wrote: On 3/30/10 8:49 AM, Thomas Bellman wrote: JeFFreaK wrote: i'm stuck with the plugin in modules section. i've got 2 environments set called development and production. [...] now i wanted to have the sysctl plugin inserted

Re: [Puppet Users] plugin in modules - Environments - documentation?

2010-03-30 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Roy Nielsen r...@lanl.gov wrote: On 3/30/10 9:33 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Roy Nielsenr...@lanl.gov  wrote: On 3/30/10 8:49 AM, Thomas Bellman wrote: JeFFreaK wrote: i'm stuck with the plugin in modules section. i've

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet 0.25.4 passenger

2010-03-30 Thread Nigel Kersten
It's worth reading the ext/rack stuff on how to set up passenger. You don't necessarily need to use the example manifests there to set up Passenger, but we should all be capable of reading puppet manifests to work out what actually needs to be done.

Re: [Puppet Users] large files hierarchy - per module or monolithic?

2010-03-23 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:50 PM, John Warburton jwarbur...@gmail.com wrote: The issue isn't organising puppet, but dealing with a global team of 50 people who may or may not really understand what they are dealing with I was thinking that rather than find out too late that someone has tried

Re: [Puppet Users] Will a 0.25 client work w/ 0.24 server?

2010-03-23 Thread Nigel Kersten
No. On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:11 AM, sdotsen samnang@gmail.com wrote: I'm using the latest stable build of 0.24 on my servers. The puppetmaster runs on 0.24 as well. Prior to upgrading, I would like to test 0.25 to make sure all is well. When trying to connect a 0.25 client to my

Re: [Puppet Users] templatedir for environment or for module?

2010-03-23 Thread Nigel Kersten
if a template exists in modules/foo/templates/bar.erb you refer to it as template(foo/bar.erb) in manifests. On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Allan Marcus al...@lanl.gov wrote: I am confused about the template dir in the module/{modulename}/ dir Does the autoloader look in

Re: [Puppet Users] Behavior of Environments -- Bug?

2010-03-22 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Julian Simpson simpsonjul...@gmail.com wrote: I'd expect it to fail in such a way that the puppet run could not happen. Anything else could have worse consequences. ++ J. On 22 March 2010 20:26, Paul Lathrop paul.lath...@gmail.com wrote: Scott, I know

Re: [Puppet Users] Directory structure?

2010-03-22 Thread Nigel Kersten
You should use 'lib' instead of 'plugins' for 0.25.x clients. Otherwise that's exactly how I have things laid out. On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Allan Marcus al...@lanl.gov wrote: hello, Is this directory structure for modules still recommended, or is there a better way?

Re: [Puppet Users] Behavior of Environments -- Bug?

2010-03-22 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Scott Smith sc...@ohlol.net wrote: On 3/22/10 1:26 PM, Paul Lathrop wrote: Scott, I know it defaults to production if a environment is not specified. However, that's not the case here. The client *is* specifying an environment, the server doesn't know about

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Package Providers for OD X Server

2010-03-21 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 3:15 PM, donavan dona...@desinc.net wrote: Sorry for the late reply. I hadn't noticed your response. How are you running the puppetmasters Donovan? Passenger? I'd like us to have a nice simple install for people wanting to run the server on OS X. I have a script

Re: [Puppet Users] Inline include

2010-03-20 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:31 AM, James Turnbull ja...@lovedthanlost.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/03/10 5:16 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: Thanks, but for the simple reason you can't revision control external nodes, they are just not feasible. You can

Re: [Puppet Users] Doc site upgrades and Wiki question

2010-03-19 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Michael DeHaan mich...@reductivelabs.com wrote: Hi folks, I've been working on adding content to http://docs.reductivelabs.com (not pushed just yet) ... the goal for docs.reductivelabs.com is to be a great place to point people learning puppet, that produces

Re: [Puppet Users] Doc site upgrades and Wiki question

2010-03-19 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Michael DeHaan mich...@reductivelabs.com wrote: I vote that what we really need is a Puppetmaster Server Options page with a brief overview of the different options and the benefits of each. It's really quite complicated at the moment Webrick Apache with

Re: [Puppet Users] Doc site upgrades and Wiki question

2010-03-19 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Brice Figureau brice-pup...@daysofwonder.com wrote: On 19/03/10 20:31, Michael DeHaan wrote: I vote that what we really need is a Puppetmaster Server Options page with a brief overview of the different options and the benefits of each. It's really quite

Re: [Puppet Users] dependencies

2010-03-18 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Christopher Johnston chjoh...@gmail.com wrote: Majority of the time rpm deps in fedora are good, so thats not that big of a concern.  I am just overly anal about stuff where if I install the ldap client I also make sure pam is there also (yet you would expect

Re: [Puppet Users] Choosing the web server

2010-03-17 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Trevor Vaughan tvaug...@onyxpoint.com wrote: Passenger should be about 30% faster and has built-in memory management via mod-rack. This is a huge plus if you have a lot of nodes or limited memory. Also, you stop having problems with Apache getting out of sync

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Package Providers for OD X Server

2010-03-17 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:01 AM, donavan dona...@desinc.net wrote: At work we have three puppetmasters running on OSX 10.5. I hate to say it, but it came down to custom packages. We're using encap to deploy across 3 different OSs for all the site common bits. Other than the packaging the

Re: [Puppet Users] Choosing the web server

2010-03-17 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Christopher Johnston chjoh...@gmail.com wrote: Am I missing something with mongrel though?  It seemed straighfwd to me just a custom httpd.conf you add the puppetmaster ports you want it to proxy too and make sure the puppetmasters have the ports. Or is it they

Re: [Puppet Users] passenger errors

2010-03-17 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Christopher Johnston chjoh...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone seen this come up, I am using 0.24.8 version of puppet.  I followed the directions on the wiki and installed passenger correctly from what I can tell. [Wed Mar 17 09:07:56 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.14

Re: [Puppet Users] Package Providers for OD X Server

2010-03-15 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Gary Larizza Jr. glari...@me.com wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm curious to see how many people are running puppetmasterd on OS X Server.  I'm trying to cement a recipe for my puppetmasters (10.5 Servers), and I'm finding that many modules port over well but certain

Re: [Puppet Users] disable ssl

2010-03-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
  they also have their own dns domain suffix so that could work. On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Christopher Johnston chjoh...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for the late response.  That feature looks attractive

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Exec doesn't work with Ubuntu Server 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) 64bit

2010-03-12 Thread Nigel Kersten
For those people following along at home on this issue, Lucas Nussbaum chased it up on behalf of Debian and has just gotten a patch uploaded to Debian that resolves this problem. http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2739 On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com wrote

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Exec doesn't work with Ubuntu Server 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) 64bit

2010-03-12 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:55 PM, James Turnbull ja...@lovedthanlost.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/03/10 7:34 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: For those people following along at home on this issue, Lucas Nussbaum chased it up on behalf of Debian and has just gotten

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Failed to retrieve current state of resource a.o

2010-03-11 Thread Nigel Kersten
Is that your entire config? ie no environments or anything? On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:49 PM, skoesters skoest...@gmx.de wrote: Hi and thanks for your answer, no, i do not have plugins in my fileserver config. my puppet.conf looks like this: --- [main]    # Where Puppet stores dynamic

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Failed to retrieve current state of resource a.o

2010-03-11 Thread Nigel Kersten
in 0.01 seconds notice: Finished catalog run in 0.02 seconds --- Best regards Sebastian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: puppet-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:puppet-us...@googlegroups.com] Im Auftrag von Nigel Kersten Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. März 2010 16:09 An: puppet-users

Re: [Puppet Users] Is it possible for puppet to compile packages?

2010-03-10 Thread Nigel Kersten
I build debs for passenger based upon the brightbox PPA dsc file. I refuse to compile by hand on production. On Mar 10, 2010 7:46 AM, Michael DeHaan mich...@reductivelabs.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:04 AM, James Turnbull ja...@lovedthanlost.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SI... Apache

Re: [Puppet Users] Making Puppet run faster

2010-03-10 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Douglas Garstang doug.garst...@gmail.com wrote: We have puppet 0.24.8 running on multiple EIGHT core 3.16Ghz servers with 32Gb of RAM, and in each case puppet is taking longer and longer to run, as we have it control more. Currently it's taking up to 20 minutes

Re: [Puppet Users] Making Puppet run faster

2010-03-10 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Douglas Garstang doug.garst...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Douglas Garstang doug.garst...@gmail.com wrote: We have puppet 0.24.8 running on multiple EIGHT core

Re: [Puppet Users] Making Puppet run faster

2010-03-10 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Douglas Garstang doug.garst...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Brice Figureau brice-pup...@daysofwonder.com wrote: On 10/03/10 18:58, Douglas Garstang wrote: We have puppet 0.24.8 running on multiple EIGHT core 3.16Ghz servers with 32Gb of

Re: [Puppet Users] Tons of configuration version reports

2010-03-09 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Kent Rankin rankin.k...@gmail.com wrote: When is 0.25.5 scheduled to be fixed?  If it's not very soon, we're going to have to jump on the CFEngine bandwagon. Just for this feature? If it's that critical to you, wouldn't providing a patch be a more productive use

Re: [Puppet Users] syntax

2010-03-06 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Dick Davies rasput...@hellooperator.net wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Peter Meier peter.me...@immerda.ch wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, it workes in erb test, but not when puppet runs: undefined method `start_with?'

Re: [Puppet Users] About autosigning and the FAQ entry

2010-03-06 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Claus Divossen claus.divos...@t-online.de wrote: Hello! The FAQ contains an entry about autosigning: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#why-shouldn-t-i-use-autosign-for-all-my-clients It says: The certificate itself is

Re: [Puppet Users] About autosigning and the FAQ entry

2010-03-06 Thread Nigel Kersten
for 0.24.x. If cert foo exists (the public cert on the CA) and someone else requests foo, the second autosign will fail. Claus, this is a huge bug if you've confirmed it. Regards,  Claus On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 08:29 -0800, Nigel Kersten wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Claus Divossen

Re: [Puppet Users] syntax

2010-03-04 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Len Rugen lenru...@gmail.com wrote: Well, it workes in erb test, but not when puppet runs: undefined method `start_with?' for  via puppet erb -x -T '-' test.erb | ruby -c  says Syntax OK I thought 'start_with was a ruby 1.9 thing only? And starts_with

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet 0.24.8 RPM (0.25.4 client not backwards compatible)

2010-03-04 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Douglas Garstang doug.garst...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know where I can get the puppet 0.24.8 RPM? We had been getting it from the public EPEL Repo, but it looks like they just decided to upgrade the version in their repository to 0.25.4. So... since our

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Exec doesn't work with Ubuntu Server 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) 64bit

2010-03-01 Thread Nigel Kersten
/Exec[TEST-EXEC]/returns: executed successfully debug: Finishing transaction 23715922698720 with 1 changes j...@debian:~$ -Josh On Feb 13, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: Note too that the same bug should be affecting Debian testing and unstable if the Ruby 1.8.7 p249 package

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet on os x: definitive setup notes?

2010-03-01 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:47 AM, foilpan foil...@gmail.com wrote: i've been reading docs and blundering my way through a simple puppet client/server setup between two test hosts (puppetmasterd on server 10.5.8, puppet client on client 10.6.2) and am wondering if there's any current definitive

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: puppet on os x: definitive setup notes?

2010-03-01 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 6:02 PM, foilpan foil...@gmail.com wrote: thanks nigel and james. i'm actually reading notes passed along by another list member, watching the macworld 2008 presentation from nigel and jeff, and have the pulling strings book here for reference. i needed ruby 1.9.1 for

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Magazine article comparing CPU usage of Puppet vs. Cfengine

2010-02-24 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Michael Gliwinski michael.gliwin...@henderson-group.com wrote: On Tuesday 23 Feb 2010 16:22:44 Lindsay Holmwood wrote: Performance, expressiveness, stability. Pick two. You make it sound like it's impossible to write a well performing, expressive and stable

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Augeas pam.d argument checking

2010-02-21 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Joe McDonagh joseph.e.mcdon...@gmail.com wrote: seph wrote: Joe McDonagh joseph.e.mcdon...@gmail.com writes: I have not thought about using augeas because last time I tried to build it for our standard OS (Ubuntu 8.04) IIRC it needed a newer version of

[Puppet Users] capacity planning with puppet.

2010-02-18 Thread Nigel Kersten
+puppet-users, puppet-dev to catch the developer-y folks too. How, if at all, do any of you do capacity planning with Puppet? I've worked out a snippet of ruby code that will take the cached fact data from the servers, and use that to issue a bunch of catalog retrieval requests. I ended up

Re: [Puppet Users] capacity planning with puppet.

2010-02-18 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:59 AM, R P Herrold herr...@owlriver.com wrote: On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Nigel Kersten wrote: How, if at all, do any of you do capacity planning with Puppet? somewhat orthogonal to the question, but after reading this piece:        http://www.usenix.org/publications

Re: [Puppet Users] capacity planning with puppet.

2010-02-18 Thread Nigel Kersten
looking for in the tool. Trevor On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:59 AM, R P Herrold herr...@owlriver.com wrote: On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Nigel Kersten wrote: How, if at all, do any of you do capacity planning with Puppet? somewhat

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: satellite sites management

2010-02-16 Thread Nigel Kersten
I'm going to ask what might be a dumb question now. Why can't we re-order things such that the external node classifier doesn't simply get a certname as an argument, but instead receives all the client facts? There is an awful lot of logic I would like to remove from my manifests and push to the

Re: [Puppet Users] My first type/provider - does nothing...

2010-02-16 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Daniel Kerwin d.k3r...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi list, i tried to write my first type and provider that should create logical volumes. Seems like i'm missing something as i get nothing when i use it: No errors and no logical volume :-( This might be better for

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: satellite sites management

2010-02-16 Thread Nigel Kersten
servers? This means it's not going to have these facts until the client has completed at least one puppet run right? feature requests are welcomed cheers, Ohad On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com wrote: I'm going to ask what might be a dumb question now. Why

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: satellite sites management

2010-02-16 Thread Nigel Kersten
, but I have a very mobile user base that reasonably frequently switch between different puppet servers based upon their location, so the first puppet run against a given server scenario is something I have to be concerned about. Ohad On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppetmaster child processes hang

2010-02-16 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:05 AM, S H shdashb...@gmail.com wrote: After an unexpected and unreasonably long hiatus, I've finally returned to implementing Puppet in my environment. My puppetmaster: Puppet 0.25.4, Facter 1.5.7, Ruby 1.8.7, and FreeBSD 8.0. Is this ruby 1.8.7 patch level 249 SH ?

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Exec doesn't work with Ubuntu Server 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) 64bit

2010-02-16 Thread Nigel Kersten
: executed successfully debug: Finishing transaction 23715922698720 with 1 changes j...@debian:~$ -Josh On Feb 13, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: Note too that the same bug should be affecting Debian testing and unstable if the Ruby 1.8.7 p249 package is the problem. Surely we

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Exec doesn't work with Ubuntu Server 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) 64bit

2010-02-16 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Joshua Anderson joshua_ander...@mac.com wrote: I'm afraid that I couldn't reproduce this on a Debian VM with Kai's example. Joshua, I was just having issues reproducing it as well on a 4

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: naming inherited classes vs namespace children.

2010-02-15 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 5:58 AM, jcbollinger john.bollin...@stjude.org wrote: On Feb 13, 6:53 pm, Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com wrote: Do other people have a consistent naming system for distinguishing between sub-classes that are simply namespace children versus those that actually

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Exec doesn't work with Ubuntu Server 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) 64bit

2010-02-13 Thread Nigel Kersten
.  The solution is to rebuild ruby1.8 without pthreads, unless ruby fixes the bug upstream which causes the hang. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ruby1.8/+bug/520715 Joel On Feb 10, 2:42 pm, Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Nigel Kersten nig

[Puppet Users] naming inherited classes vs namespace children.

2010-02-13 Thread Nigel Kersten
Do other people have a consistent naming system for distinguishing between sub-classes that are simply namespace children versus those that actually inherit from another class? ie the following setup class foo { } class foo::bar { } vs. class foo { } class foo::bar inherits foo { } I'm

Re: [Puppet Users] satellite sites management

2010-02-12 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Michael DeHaan mich...@reductivelabs.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Nat qwerty@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We have got puppet set up and running at our main office with no issues. We are using an external node classifier instead of directly

Re: [Puppet Users] Exec doesn't work with Ubuntu Server 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) 64bit

2010-02-10 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:06 AM, kai.steverding kai.steverd...@googlemail.com wrote: I installed ruby on the above server and tried with a simple exec- test : class testmodule {                exec {TEST-EXEC :                        cwd = /tmp/,                        command

Re: [Puppet Users] Exec doesn't work with Ubuntu Server 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) 64bit

2010-02-10 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:06 AM, kai.steverding kai.steverd...@googlemail.com wrote: I installed ruby on the above server and tried with a simple exec- test : class testmodule {                exec {TEST-EXEC

Re: [Puppet-dev] Re: [Puppet Users] Plugins in modules with environments and the puppetmaster libdir

2010-02-09 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Luke Kanies l...@reductivelabs.com wrote: On Feb 5, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Thomas Bellman bell...@nsc.liu.se wrote: Nigel Kersten wrote: So facter plugins are kind of different, as they're not actually

Re: [Puppet Users] Making the new users experience easier

2010-02-09 Thread Nigel Kersten
I honestly think the most important thing for new users is to clean up the documentation. Not a lot of the existing docs on the wiki read as being particularly authoritative. They're full of lines like: Exporting and collecting resources is an extension of virtual

<    3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   >