puppet-users@googlegroups.com discussions for March 2014

17	[Puppet Users] How to debug catalog transfer?

Hi! I've got a problem with Windows clients: When running "puppet agent -t" manually everything works. (as "administrator" in a "run as administrator" shell) But a run from the puppet-service throws ...

Andy Spiegl
Mar 14, 2014 at 10:51 am
Mar 25, 2014 at 5:59 pm

15	[Puppet Users] mount point directory permissions

Hi I have the following problem: in a certain module I need to set permissions on a directory after the mount was executed. If I do the following file { '/app_dir': ensure = 'directory' owner = ...

Paolo Supino
Mar 21, 2014 at 4:41 pm
Mar 24, 2014 at 11:45 am

11	[Puppet Users] certificates being 'randomly' revoked

Hi, I've been having issues with certificates being revoked without any human intervention or oversight; one day a node will try to do an update and it can't because its certificate is revoked. There ...

Steve
Mar 17, 2014 at 6:42 pm
Nov 10, 2014 at 12:06 am

11	[Puppet Users] when a puppet exec resource contains several "single commands", puppet exec only fails if the last exec command fails

exec {'test': command = "/bin/ls /doesnotexit", } fails as expected: Error: /bin/ls /doesnotexit returned 1 instead of one of [0] Error: /Stage[main]//Exec[test]/returns: change from notrun to 0 ...

David Portabella
Mar 10, 2014 at 3:02 pm
Mar 13, 2014 at 5:52 pm

8	[Puppet Users] Assign group membership in a module or conditionally?

Scenario - we have modules: - our_users: defines all the (virtual) users (sysadmins, support, developers) as members of wheel - our_base: gets applied to all nodes - our_webserver: defines the apache ...

Martin Langhoff
Mar 28, 2014 at 6:24 pm
Mar 31, 2014 at 5:18 pm

8	[Puppet Users] LaunchDaemon on Mac OSX 10.9 Mavericks

We have been successfully using Puppet v2 for a few years now managing Mac OSX machines, with a LaunchDaemon file (com.reductivelabs.puppet http://1drv.ms/1kqcNW0) This needed to be changed when ...

Merlin Hartley
Mar 14, 2014 at 1:21 pm
Mar 20, 2014 at 12:44 am

7	[Puppet Users] Is ensure_resource() evil?

Over the years I've heard a lot of people declare one function/method/implementation of something to be "evil". I've found that, more often than not, the person declaring it to be bad has simply been ...

Atom Powers
Mar 31, 2014 at 4:24 am
Apr 2, 2014 at 7:52 am

7	[Puppet Users] puppetdb question !!!

Hi, Its been some time that I have been working with puppet. I have recently installed puppetdb and am using puppetdb APIs to fetch the data about facts etc.. Few things that I have noticed are 1) ...

Rakesh Kathpal
Mar 10, 2014 at 1:30 pm
Mar 30, 2014 at 7:42 pm

7	[Puppet Users] Re: How to handle multiple modules requiring the same packages

same problem here. just find that razor module has static def of package curl. what is the best practice? for now i have deleted the definition from module and included my virtual packages ...

Och ach
Mar 27, 2014 at 2:03 pm
Mar 28, 2014 at 4:06 pm

7	[Puppet Users] puppet class dependencies

class { c2: } class { c3: } class c1 { } class c2 { class { c1: } } class c3 { require c2 } c3 depends on c2 (as expected), but c3 does not depend on c1. this issue could be fixed by adding "require ...

David Portabella
Mar 19, 2014 at 11:18 am
Mar 27, 2014 at 10:53 am

7	[Puppet Users] scheduling defined resources

Hello, We're currently using version 3.4.3, and the documentation on metaparameters states "any defined metaparameter can be used with any instance in your manifest, *including defined components.*" ...

Mark deJong
Mar 7, 2014 at 3:18 pm
Mar 13, 2014 at 2:24 pm

7	[Puppet Users] Replicating += with hiera

I'm in the process of moving to Puppet 3 and hiera. With my old setup I placed users that were on all servers in basenode. Then did a += for any additional users in the node definition. node basenode ...

Kenton Brede
Mar 12, 2014 at 4:11 pm
Mar 12, 2014 at 7:06 pm

7	[Puppet Users] Problems in Ch. 4 of Pro Puppet 2nd Edition

Again, nothing that a good proof edit couldn't fix. Jon Forrest ---- (U) Pg. 100 Listing 4-2 shows package resource definitions appearing as the result of running 'puppet resource service'. Are we ...

Jon Forrest
Mar 3, 2014 at 3:16 am
Mar 11, 2014 at 5:55 pm

7	[Puppet Users] munin service wont' star

Hey all, I notice with the munin module I wrote, the munin-node service won't start on the first puppet run. Run it a second time, and the service starts no problem. The problem here I believe is ...

Tim Dunphy
Mar 4, 2014 at 2:07 am
Mar 5, 2014 at 6:02 pm

6	[Puppet Users] How puppet install another version of the same package.

Hi I want to install same package with a 2 different version like: libstdc++-4.4.7-3.el6.i686 libstdc++-4.4.7-3.el6.x86_64 I put it in puppet init file and when I run puppet I get: err ...

Shlo Afgin
Mar 5, 2014 at 6:43 am
Apr 23, 2014 at 12:47 pm

6	[Puppet Users] Puppet fails to run if ruby1.8 is not installed.

Amazon this week took ruby1.8 out of their Amazon Linux distro. Only ruby2.0 is installed. After installing the puppetlabs yum repo package, and then yum install puppet, I have this error: # puppet ...

Jason Price
Mar 30, 2014 at 2:54 am
Apr 23, 2014 at 10:04 am

6	[Puppet Users] Pushing git repo to Windows agent

Hi, I'm just starting out with puppet, and I have a basic handle on it. What I've been tasked to do is to be able to push files from a git repo to Windows servers. The servers themselves will have no ...

Nick Miller
Mar 7, 2014 at 8:22 pm
Mar 12, 2014 at 2:21 pm

6	[Puppet Users] Have to run puppet agent twice to install LDAP and ssh keys.

I've got a module that installs and configures LDAP for user authentication. I've got another module that creates user directories and another that assigns ssh keys. Using runstages I force the ...

Kenton Brede
Mar 7, 2014 at 3:39 pm
Mar 11, 2014 at 1:16 pm

6	[Puppet Users] ignoring changes to a file

Hi All, One of my application requires me to copy a config file after installation the application. This needs to be done only once after installation However this config file is managed by a central ...

Kaustubh chaudhari
Mar 5, 2014 at 2:41 pm
Mar 5, 2014 at 4:13 pm

6	[Puppet Users] GCE based puppet agent connection to master fails

I know this is someone fairly obvious that I'm missing but I'm having trouble getting a puppet agent running on a google compute instance to talk to my puppet master *Networking* I have added a ...

Michael Obrien
Mar 4, 2014 at 11:55 am
Mar 4, 2014 at 3:41 pm

5	[Puppet Users] Problem with custom facts and hiera

Hi, I'm trying to categorize our Puppet agent nodes via custom facts. To do this, I've placed a simple text file "custom_facts.txt" into C:\ProgramData\PuppetLabs\facter\facts.d with content [facts] ...

Dirk Heinrichs
Mar 11, 2014 at 9:17 am
May 1, 2014 at 12:06 am

5	[Puppet Users] Failed to generate additional resources using 'eval_generate'

Hey all, I'm getting the following error on only one of my puppet hosts: Error: /File[/var/lib/puppet/facts.d]: Failed to generate additional resources using 'eval_generate': Error 400 on SERVER: Not ...

Tim Dunphy
Mar 16, 2014 at 12:04 am
Mar 28, 2014 at 7:55 pm

5	[Puppet Users] Books and resources for Test Driven Development for Puppet?

Hi All, Was wondering if anyone knew of any good books or resources for learning Test Driven Development of Puppet including puppet-rspec, beaker and Jenkins. Yes, I know that beaker is more for ...

Alex Scoble
Mar 24, 2014 at 5:24 pm
Mar 28, 2014 at 4:11 pm

5	[Puppet Users] puppet agent doesn't start service on initial run

Hi, I've created a module to manage a custom java application. It has it's own SysV init script which is working perfectly. My issue is this: when a node pulls it's catalog from the master for the ...

Bogdan Mania
Mar 26, 2014 at 1:49 pm
Mar 28, 2014 at 8:29 am

5	[Puppet Users] exclusion/exception in server.pp file

Hello I have define in my server.pp file diferent zone and I defined my dns servers (resolv_servers). for my /etc/resolv.conf for this zone #Zone 1 if $::ipaddress =~ /^172.17.3./ { $ntp_heure = ...

Puppetstan
Mar 12, 2014 at 4:40 pm
Mar 21, 2014 at 5:29 pm

5	[Puppet Users] Create variable as result of command execution

Hello, What is the best way in puppet to create a variable as result of command below: *$nginx_dir=`/usr/sbin/nginx -V 2 /etc/puppet/nginx.args | /bin/cat /etc/puppet/nginx.args | /usr/bin/awk ...

Roman Alekseev
Mar 19, 2014 at 7:27 am
Mar 21, 2014 at 4:38 am

4	[Puppet Users] fail on first error. don't continue doing stuff

I have weird scenario: When I run puppet for the very first time, it always fails, but when I re-run puppet on that machine, it always passes. I must have some obscure dependency issue somewhere and ...

Alexander Gray II
Mar 18, 2014 at 9:03 pm
Apr 22, 2014 at 1:03 pm

4	[Puppet Users] how do I check to see whether a hash value is defined if a parent of the hash value might not even exist?

I've got a big hash of info that looks like this: $web_conf = { my_client = { dev = { ws = { server_name = 'ws.foo.bar', server_aliases = ['ws.dev.bar.foo.com', 'ws.dev.another.foo.com'], }, csr = { ...

Steve Neuharth
Mar 10, 2014 at 8:51 pm
Apr 16, 2014 at 12:56 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Puppet Agent's webrick crashes every 30sec.

hi, i get the following output every 30sec. in the /var/log/puppet/http.log [2014-03-28 10:30:55] ERROR OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: SSL_accept SYSCALL returned=5 errno=0 state=SSLv2/v3 read client hello ...

Peter Bauer
Mar 28, 2014 at 10:45 am
Apr 7, 2014 at 11:43 am

4	[Puppet Users] separate puppetmaster ca server

Hi, Apologies if this appears twice, I couldn't see it show up in the archives. I've been trying to set up a separate ca server for puppetmaster and failing. I'm sure I've missed something but I'm ...

Chris
Mar 30, 2014 at 9:08 pm
Mar 30, 2014 at 11:53 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Failed to realize virtual resources

i've moduiles/virtualuser/manifests/init.pp class virtualuser ( $allusers = hiera('users')) { include virtualuser::virtual $allusers.each |$key,$value| { #not showing code to extract all variables ...

S L
Mar 28, 2014 at 3:59 pm
Mar 29, 2014 at 6:50 am

4	[Puppet Users] Help with dependancy cycle

Hi all, I am writing a module to manage MySQL/MariaDB with Galera extensions and have run into a problem I don't seem to be able to figure out. Error: Could not apply complete catalog: Found 1 ...

Adam Clark
Mar 28, 2014 at 2:31 am
Mar 29, 2014 at 12:09 am

4	[Puppet Users] Final Comments on Pro Puppet 2nd Edition

I just posted my list of issues I discovered in Chapters 11 and 12 - the last two chapters of Pro Puppet 2nd Edition. I found a lot of issues with this book. I simply don't understand how these ...

Jon Forrest
Mar 27, 2014 at 4:19 am
Mar 27, 2014 at 11:07 pm

4	[Puppet Users] i require a defined type which contains a file resource, but the file resource does not retain the relatioship

I have this test.pp example on puppet 3.4.3 on OSX 10.9: c2 {'test': } - c3 {'test': } define c1 { notice "+++" file {'/tmp/c1.txt': ensure = present } } define c2 { c1 {$name: } notice "+++" file ...

David Portabella
Mar 19, 2014 at 12:54 pm
Mar 27, 2014 at 11:05 am

4	[Puppet Users] Getting an error when trying to apply manifest locally on windows

Hello, I installed the elasticsearch-logstash module on my windows 7 laptop and when I try to apply the manifest locally to install logstash, I am getting the following error ...

Sam
Mar 25, 2014 at 2:14 pm
Mar 27, 2014 at 6:20 am

4	[Puppet Users] HP-UX Puppet Init Script !!

Hi, I have been successfully able to install puppet on hu-ux, all I am looking is to run puppet agent from this server. Can someone please help me with the init script for puppet agent on HP-UX ?? It ...

Rakesh Kathpal
Mar 22, 2014 at 4:33 pm
Mar 24, 2014 at 1:49 pm

4	[Puppet Users] SSL Certificate errors - Migrating from build in webserver to Apache and Passenger

Hi All I've been running Puppet using the build in web server and I'm now moving to Apache and Passenger. I've completed the installation and started testing. If I run puppet agent --test --noop I ...

Tom Hallam
Mar 22, 2014 at 3:40 pm
Mar 22, 2014 at 7:09 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Puppet Agent log messages while CSR is not signed

Hi, we're currently deploying a lot of puppet clients, and when a client has been set up it generates a lot of messages ( 1 every 4 minutes ) saying that the CSR has not yet been signed by the ...

Bjoern pohl
Mar 21, 2014 at 1:38 pm
Mar 21, 2014 at 2:31 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Concat function not found after switching to dynamic environments

I just switched to using environments more or less as described in http://puppetlabs.com/blog/git-workflow-and-puppet-environments and now puppet agent --test on a previously working node fails ...

Agustin Horischnik
Mar 14, 2014 at 2:18 pm
Mar 19, 2014 at 9:41 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Most trivial site.pp throwing errors

Hello All. My very first post and a Super-noob puppet user checking in. I have been using puppet for just a week or so and have had moderate success with 2 ubuntu master/agent setup. Now, I want to ...

Sam K
Mar 18, 2014 at 1:13 pm
Mar 18, 2014 at 6:07 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Ideas to allow users only on certain servers

So at my organization, we have different departments that should only have access to certain servers. For example: Dev Team: Dev Servers Tech Support: Production Server Admins: All servers How Puppet ...

Philippe Conway
Mar 13, 2014 at 9:52 pm
Mar 14, 2014 at 7:41 pm

4	[Puppet Users] my puppets clients are unreachable

Hello After to change a network device beetween my puppetmaster and my puppets clients my puppetmaster, my puppets clients are unreachable. I changed a network device in front of a zone server. I ...

Puppetstan
Mar 11, 2014 at 4:35 pm
Mar 13, 2014 at 6:33 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Disable SSL when compiling catalogs for testing purposes

Hi folks, recently in our Puppet pipeline we added a few tests on catalogs leveraging Ripienaar's puppet-catalog-diff [1]. Basically, before merging to production, for each node we compare the ...

Alexander Fortin
Mar 5, 2014 at 3:10 pm
Mar 6, 2014 at 3:11 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Ordering between 2 create_resources in Puppet Manifests

I was wondering if there is a way to define ordering between 2 create_resources in puppet manifests. For example: create_resources('php::install', $php_packages) - create_resources('webapps::deploy', ...

Vishwa Kumba
Mar 29, 2014 at 2:40 pm
Apr 1, 2014 at 10:06 pm

3	[Puppet Users] puppet-3.4.3-1.el6.noarch error:Could not evaluate: Could not retrieve information from environment production source

Hi All, I am newbie to puppet. when I try to source file from the puppet master, I met the following problem that almost make me crazy. I have tried many methods, but still not solved. Can someone ...

BravePig2013
Mar 28, 2014 at 2:08 pm
Mar 28, 2014 at 8:50 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Broken certificate chain on apt.puppetlabs.com?

Hi all, I just noticed that some of my servers are having trouble while running `apt-get update`, apparently due to TLS issues with apt.puppetlabs.com. `apt-get update` returns: W: Failed to fetch ...

Christopher Orr
Mar 24, 2014 at 2:21 pm
Mar 26, 2014 at 12:39 am

3	[Puppet Users] passing more parameters to define

Hi All. How I post more parameters to define, for example key type and fqdn in this sample? $keys = [[ "key1", "key2" ] pubkey { $keys: user = $login } define pubkey($user) { ssh_authorized_key { ...

A. Gorlov
Mar 24, 2014 at 2:03 pm
Mar 25, 2014 at 5:47 pm

3	[Puppet Users] puppet manifest/template code validation

Hi Being lazy and forgetful a while ago I wrote a small bash shell script that checks puppet manifests and ruby code embedded in templates. I'm posting it to the group in hope that others will find ...

Paolo Supino
Mar 25, 2014 at 7:46 am
Mar 25, 2014 at 12:52 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Powershell error 80040154, import-module, set-webconfigurationproperty

Hi all, I'm currently trying to set some web configuration properties through powershell using puppet but it is throwing me error. If I were to run the commands directly on the powershell it works ...

Choon Ming Goh
Mar 23, 2014 at 3:01 pm
Mar 25, 2014 at 3:31 am

3	[Puppet Users] hiera could not find item

Any one had this problem to find a attribute or know how to solve this? In my case I separated hiera files by osfamily when I execute # hiera packages_utils return me nil BUT if I execute # hiera ...

Renan Vicente
Mar 21, 2014 at 8:19 pm
Mar 22, 2014 at 8:14 pm

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