Apache Puppet September, 2010

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Puppet Scalability - Centralised Puppet SSL Cert Issues By: John Warburton Hi All I am trying to use the section on Centralised Puppet Infrastructure on the Scaling Puppet page - http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Puppet_Scalability No matter what I do, I always end up with the client contacting a puppet…	3	Sep 1, 2010 00:48	Sep 1, 2010 18:55
Error reporting to dashboard clients : "err: Could not send report: end of file reached" By: Héctor Rivas Gándara Hello, I am using puppet 2.6.1rc3 and puppet-dashboard-1.0.3 I set up online reporting setting in puppetmaster configuration: reports = store,log,tagmail,http reporturl = http://localhost:3000/reports It is working, new reports are loaded…	1	Sep 1, 2010 06:25	Sep 1, 2010 07:07
Re: Managing the same file from multiple modules/classes/manifests By: Kit Stube You wouldn't by any chance be able to share those DISA SRR manifests to others would you? I've got to do the same thing here at work and it could be a good starting point. On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:21 PM, David Pheasant…	0	Sep 1, 2010 12:49	Sep 1, 2010 12:49
Puppet 2.6.1rc2 eats up a lot of memory By: Jean-Baptiste Quenot Hi there, This morning I noticed puppet agent, which was running in daemon mode every 5 minutes since August 24th, is using 1.4GB of memory on all hosts. I was not experiencing that kind of memory usage with Puppet 0.24. This is what 'top'…	2	Sep 2, 2010 03:07	Sep 2, 2010 11:26
Random errors in AIX-Zlinux clients By: Héctor Rivas Gándara >>>> The errors appear once or two times, randomly, and if I execute the >>>> client again it works properly. They are usually these kind of errors: >>> You will probably find life improved by deploying…	1	Sep 2, 2010 03:29	Sep 3, 2010 06:06
Re: Using FACTER in other ruby code By: Matthew Macdonald-Wallace On 2 September 2010 13:52, R.I.Pienaar <r### @devco.net> wrote: > > add around here: > > ENV['FACTERLIB'] = "/var/lib/puppet/lib/facter:/var/lib/puppet/facts" > > substitute with wherever your pluginsync is putting the facts …	2	Sep 2, 2010 08:10	Sep 2, 2010 08:28
puppet file recursion requires two passes to converge By: Derek Yarnell Hi, So for awhile I have been seeing this issue but it hasn't been painful. However, recently I have been deploying a new module that has made it much more annoying. file { cdh3_config: recurse => true, …	3	Sep 2, 2010 08:15	Sep 2, 2010 16:39
$name uppercased By: Dan Urist I'm not sure if this is a bug or an intentional change, but I'm seeing the $name variable in my manifests initial-uppercased in 2.6.1-rc2; 0.25 didn't do this. Since I use this to generate some path variables in my modules, I now have to downcase…	1	Sep 2, 2010 10:35	Sep 2, 2010 12:17
Using stages in puppet By: Richard Knight has anybody else noticed issues with nesting stage classes in 2.6.0? Using Jeffs eariler post I easily make a stage script do what I need, the problem is if you import it in site.pp it runs for every node in the environment, it would seem becuase…	1	Sep 2, 2010 11:24	Sep 2, 2010 19:11
err: Too many open files - /var/lib/puppet/state/state.yaml.tmp By: Colm O'Connor I keep on getting this message: err: Too many open files - /var/lib/puppet/state/state.yaml.tmp Does anybody know what might be causing it? I'm also getting "err: State got corrupted". Everything does seem to be kind of working, but it's sort of…	3	Sep 2, 2010 11:24	Sep 3, 2010 06:54
puppet-server] - "/var/lib/puppet" while installing 0.25.5 puppet-server By: kid17 just installed puppet-server using yum. but when i ran /etc/init.d/puppetmaster start, file directory /var/lib/ puppet is empty. how come it's empty as compared to installing from source?	3	Sep 2, 2010 11:25	Sep 5, 2010 23:39
Facter error Could not find value for 'ipaddress_eth0_0' By: Scott Lillibridge I am getting the following error when compiling a template Could not find value for 'ipaddress_eth0_0' but it seems that that fact exists sc### @li96-152:~$ facter \| grep ipaddress_eth0_0 ipaddress_eth0_0 => 192.168.141.111 I'm using facter…	0	Sep 2, 2010 11:28	Sep 2, 2010 11:28
err: Could not run Puppet configuration client: Invalid parameter stage at ... By: toll13445 Hi, I am getting the following error on my CentOS clients; err: Could not run Puppet configuration client: Invalid parameter stage at /etc/puppet/manifests/nodes.pp:32 The server is CentOS 5.4 with packages from the epel-puppet repos; # rpm -qa \|…	2	Sep 2, 2010 11:31	Sep 2, 2010 17:18
SVN pre-commit hook on wiki By: Carl Caum On the wiki page http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Puppet_Version_Control, the SVN Pre-Commit Hook script needs to be fixed to not check the syntax on files getting deleted. The following line: $SVNLOOK changed -t "$TXN" "$REPOS" \|…	3	Sep 2, 2010 13:35	Sep 2, 2010 14:07
variable set in site.pp not visible in nodes.pp By: Dan Urist I have another glitch with 2.6.1-rc2 that worked in 0.25-- I set a global variable in my site.pp that is used in my nodes.pp, but it's no longer set there, though it still is in my modules. Is this a bug, or a design change?	4	Sep 2, 2010 14:42	Sep 3, 2010 14:12
Using defined(Class[]) on a subclass By: Steven L. Seed I'm having trouble getting puppet to work when using a conditional to check whether or not a subclass is defined. Here is what I've tried to do if ! defined (Class[server::cobbler]) { # do something } With the above statement I get this…	2	Sep 2, 2010 16:08	Sep 3, 2010 17:08
help adding line to /etc/inittab By: Kit Stube Hi everyone. I am attempting to add this line to /etc/inittab so that a user will be forced to enter a password to get into single user mode: ~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin I have tried all kinds of things, but seem to be having no luck. Here is the…	3	Sep 2, 2010 16:48	Sep 13, 2010 14:43
augeas and /etc/securetty By: hai wu Hi, I need to add one line to /etc/securetty, say it needs to be ttyS1. Do not add it if ttyS1 already exists in file /etc/securetty. How to achieve this using puppet module in puppet 2.5? This file is different than the other examples using…	6	Sep 6, 2010 02:42	Sep 8, 2010 14:50
Re: Errors in 2.6.1 By: Héctor Rivas Gándara On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Douglas Garstang <doug.g### @gmail.com> wrote: > Can someone tell me why, when I restart puppet on the client, I get this: > > Sep 4 20:41:49 s_s### @db01.pax.livegamer.com puppet-agent[26756]:…	10	Sep 6, 2010 04:36	Sep 7, 2010 10:11
SSLVerifyClient required with Apache+Mongrel By: Héctor Rivas Gándara Hello, In the wiki "Using_Mongrel" http://projects.reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Using_Mongrel it proposes a configuration with the option: SSLVerifyClient require But with this option set I am not able to register new clients. When I…	5	Sep 6, 2010 05:26	Sep 7, 2010 02:33