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Austin Puppet User's meetup By: Dan Bode Hi Austin Puppet Users, I will be in the area in a few weeks and I would like to try to get some of the local users together to talk Puppet and have a few beers. Curious about how much interest there would be for an event on the 23rd of February…	2	Feb 7 2012 21:05	Feb 9 2012 00:55
require equivalent in Ruby DSL By: sateesh Hi, What is the "require 'class'" equivalent in Ruby DSL. in pp file when I say require 'swift::common' in pp file, class is located in /etc/modules/puppet/swift/manifests/common.pp is working fine. But when I keep that in RubyDSL file, I am…	0	Feb 9 2012 00:24	Feb 9 2012 00:24
puppetd hanging on some nodes By: Gonzalo Servat Hi All, In my set-up, I've got a cron job that triggers a Puppet run every 20 minutes. I've found that on approximately 13 nodes (out of 166), puppetd just hangs. I have to go in, kill the process, remove /var/lib/puppet/state/puppetdlock, and run…	6	Feb 7 2012 21:12	Feb 9 2012 00:09
Questions regarding Puppet with httpd.conf By: the_fonz Hi, I'd like to start using Puppet to manage an httpd.conf file across several webservers. I have a Puppet server and client config setup and have followed a couple of simple "How To's" to get off the ground. I'm syncing a couple of files and…	2	Feb 8 2012 17:50	Feb 8 2012 23:46
Looping in Ruby DSL By: sateesh Hi, I have written a sample manifest in puppet using Ruby DSL. I want to build a looping functionality. But I am getting problem as shown below: roo### @puppet-swproxy:/tmp# cat test.rb hostclass :test do $abc = ["a","b"] $abc.each do \|sip\| …	3	Feb 8 2012 04:11	Feb 8 2012 22:51
define hostclass with special characters By: sateesh Hi, I need to define the hostclass with special character for ex: "swift::proxy-ring" I have tried following ways but not worked: 1) hostclass :swift::proxy-ring do 2) hostclass 'swift::proxy-ring' do 3) hostclass "swift::proxy-ring" do When…	11	Feb 8 2012 05:57	Feb 8 2012 22:43
Running Puppet(Master) on port 443 By: Dan White On Feb 1, 2012, at 8:06 PM, Nan Liu wrote: > Puppet uses REST, so you can run puppet master on 443 to work around firewalls. I would like to get a bit more information on this. Is it as simple as setting all the ports in puppet.conf to 443 on…	2	Feb 8 2012 15:37	Feb 8 2012 20:01
Strange behavior by service By: Aaron Grewell I've got a bit of a head-scratcher here, though I'm sure it must be something small. I'm trying to enable a service for next boot without starting it. That usually "just works" but for some reason this time around it isn't. The node keeps trying…	3	Feb 8 2012 17:34	Feb 8 2012 18:30
Error 400 on SERVER: Could not autoload active_record: uninitialized constant ActiveRecord By: Joehillen I'm trying to setup a new puppet setup (master and clients). I installed puppet v2.7.9 from the apt.puppetlabs.com repo. I setup async_storeconfigs with mysql and stompserver. When I try to run, puppet agent --test --noop, on the client I get…	4	Dec 21 2011 12:18	Feb 8 2012 17:29
Why are not the reports uploading? By: Peter Berghold Hi folks, After installing dashboard after follwing the instructions here: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/dashboard/manual/1.2/bootstrapping.html I find that the reports are not uploading. In my puppet.conf the [master] section has the following: …	2	Feb 8 2012 15:17	Feb 8 2012 15:54
puppet, virtualenv, and .bashrc By: kevin c Morning, I am trying to do some environment setup on our developer's virtual boxes that we use vagrant+puppet to build. We install a python app, create virtualenv's for the different pip requirements, etc. Problem is that there are some custom…	3	Feb 8 2012 06:34	Feb 8 2012 14:13
Creating user with random password (only once) By: wernerbahlke Hi, I want to create a user with a random password. Is there a way to only execute the manifest once when the user does not exist but not once the user is created? I know how to create a random password and can use generate to execute this…	3	Feb 8 2012 13:30	Feb 8 2012 14:01
Researching Puppet - Local host variations By: thinkwell Hello everyone, First-time poster investigating Puppet for managing CentOS-based firewall distros at various locations. I have approximately 130 machines to administrate so some type of config management is certainly needed. I've been working…	4	Feb 7 2012 08:34	Feb 8 2012 13:43
Error 400 on SERVER: No support for http method POST By: rjl Hi All, I found a post from last year similar to this but it did not provide me with a solution. I just upgraded from 2.6.7 to 2.7.10. My clients that are still running the older 2.6.7 version are working fine. However, my clients that I have…	7	Feb 7 2012 15:38	Feb 8 2012 12:16
Re: Re: Newbie: Confused about where to start managing users... By: Peter Valdemar Mørch On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:23 PM, jcbollinger <John.Bo### @stjude.org> wrote: > To give you a good answer, I need to understand this a bit better, and > I'm having trouble with that statement. On Unix-like systems the user > name…	0	Feb 8 2012 11:03	Feb 8 2012 11:03
Newbie: Confused about where to start managing users... By: Peter Valdemar Mørch Hi, Being a newbie, I'm trying to wrap my head around puppet. Here are my first stumbling blocks: We have an output from a database which is essentially a list of users that we want to manage in the uid 2001-2999 range: * No other users may be…	4	Feb 8 2012 04:06	Feb 8 2012 09:43
class inheritance question By: jimbob palmer If I have a class class something {} and a subclass class something::blah ($var=0) inherits something { class { 'something::aaa': somevar => 1, } class { 'something::bbb': somevar => 2, } } should the classes called from the…	15	Feb 7 2012 05:52	Feb 8 2012 08:24
Best sequence for building/managing servers with Puppet? By: weloki I need to both build some new servers and rebuild some existing ones keeping in mind I want to use Puppet. The question is which is the best sequence to proceed with? A) Develop modules one by one and make sure each component works, then assemble…	2	Feb 7 2012 14:49	Feb 8 2012 08:00
Puppet 2.7 issue: Facter value not reflecting in puppet manifest By: Ashish Gupta Hi, Facter value is not reflecting in puppet manifest. Along with books ProPuppet and "Puppet 2.7 Cookbook", I am referring to following links: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_facts.html…	0	Feb 8 2012 06:05	Feb 8 2012 06:05
RE: pass values to puppet-lvm By: C R Ritson It's bound to be sub-optimal, but I too found puppet-lvm hard to get started with. Firstly, I took a long time to discover that I needed to set pluginsync to get the module copied to all hosts:- augeas { "puppet-pluginsync": context => …	0	Feb 8 2012 03:43	Feb 8 2012 03:43