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20	[salt-users] How can i execute a shell script and assign the output of the shell script to a variable inside my salt scripts ? Iam using salt minion and need to get output of a bash script to a salt variable

How can i execute a shell script and assign the output of the shell script to a variable inside my salt scripts ? Iam using salt minion and need to get output of a bash script to a salt variable -- ...

Melvil JA
Oct 25, 2015 at 2:20 pm
Nov 30, 2015 at 5:15 pm

9	[salt-users] SPM (Salt Package Manager) command not found

Hi, in the docs about spm (https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/spm/index.html) "spm" is described as a command line tool that gets installed with salt (at least that's how I read it - there ...

Oliver Bestwalter
Oct 21, 2015 at 8:23 am
Oct 23, 2015 at 12:10 pm

8	[salt-users] serializing a pillar with multi-line values into a yaml file

Hello guys, I've been trying to serialize a pillar with multi-line values into a yaml file and for whatever reason salt is adding an extra line break in to the serialized string. I tried with both ...

Tiadobatima
Oct 27, 2015 at 7:45 pm
Nov 12, 2015 at 10:46 pm

8	[salt-users] Announcing Salt WebUI: Molten 0.1

Hey Folks, Molten = Salt + React https://github.com/martinhoefling/molten This is the first release of Molten, a Salt WebUI making use of the React JS framework. The UI solely uses the REST API and ...

Martin Höfling
Oct 2, 2015 at 10:06 pm
Oct 12, 2015 at 9:32 am

7	[salt-users] Timeout Happening to Soon

In general using salt on ubuntu has not been a good experience. timeouts all the time because of memory leak in zero mq, almost unusable. need to kill/restart salt-master after two commands at most ...

Rob Dinoff
Oct 28, 2015 at 4:19 pm
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:19 am

7	[salt-users] Configure loggly

Hi I am automating loggly file monitoring with saltstack [0]. The loggly configure script is stuck indefinitely. Following is the loggly.sls # loggly.sls download_configure_linux: cmd.run: - name ...

Kracekumar Ramaraj
Oct 28, 2015 at 3:48 pm
Nov 3, 2015 at 6:02 pm

7	[salt-users] Filter ipv4 by subnet in map.jinja. How ?!

Hi people! I'm trying to create map.jinja to math ipv4 by subnet and assign server variable related to subnet. Here is map.jinja: {% set zabbix_agent = salt['grains.filter_by']({ '10.0.1*': { ...

Anton A
Oct 31, 2015 at 10:08 pm
Nov 2, 2015 at 5:55 pm

7	[salt-users] Add block of text if file is missing

Hello, I'm trying to patch a security exploit on our server farm, and am running into issues with certain older boxes. I want to append the patch to a file that exists ONLY if a certain other file ...

Joshua Brown
Oct 21, 2015 at 11:51 am
Oct 21, 2015 at 5:07 pm

6	[salt-users] gitfs https using pygit2

Hi, I have been trying to setup gitfs to retrieve via https, and hoped that someone can provide some pointers to help me fix it... The setup fails with 'Unexpected HTTP status code: 401' I have ...

Ross Black
Oct 13, 2015 at 10:04 am
Nov 12, 2015 at 9:19 am

6	[salt-users] grains_refresh_every for selected grains

minion configuration says refreshing grains is an expensive task. # The grains_refresh_every setting allows for a minion to periodically check # its grains to see if they have changed and, if so, to ...

Jim M.
Oct 14, 2015 at 2:25 pm
Oct 27, 2015 at 9:12 pm

6	[salt-users] Chaining events together using requisites

Hi, I am working on states to manage my VMware tools installs for Linux VM's and currently think I have it working mostly. One thing I have a question about is how to chain onchanges events together ...

BKeep
Oct 11, 2015 at 11:42 pm
Oct 22, 2015 at 9:16 pm

6	[salt-users] Is Salt Event Secure

Hello, I'm trying to replicate a password, automatically generated on a minion using a custom module, into the salt master. I'm thinking using the password as an argument for the event, but this ...

Anthony Martinet
Oct 2, 2015 at 3:23 pm
Oct 9, 2015 at 2:38 pm

5	[salt-users] Source and salt-managed in managed files

Hi, I normally add something like: # {{ salt['pillar.get']('SALT_MANAGED') }} # Source: {{ source }} to the top of all salt managed files. (The SALT_MANAGED is a string set in my pillar) Is there ...

Kees Bos
Oct 28, 2015 at 8:21 am
Nov 2, 2015 at 3:44 pm

5	[salt-users] how to runnng 2 minion on the same Sever / Salt-minion1 = root (OPS) Salt-minion2 = sudo (DEV)

Hi How can i run 2 salt-minions on the same server? The idea is to have a root minion for OPS and a sudo Minion for DEV. How can i achieve? Salt-minion1 = root (OPS) Salt-minion2 = sudo (DEV) cheers ...

Oliver Guggenbühl
Oct 23, 2015 at 6:13 am
Oct 23, 2015 at 4:29 pm

5	[salt-users] any one known how to pass the arg to the state file or formula?

Hi: I write a new state file called my_file.sls: file_install: file.managed: - name: /tmp/test - source: salt://test.config - mode: 755 I want reuse this file on the other project: I can include this ...

Kong hui
Oct 12, 2015 at 4:00 am
Oct 13, 2015 at 8:45 pm

4	[salt-users] Fail to use reg.present for REG_BINARY non-ascii data for windows

Using salt 2015.8.0 both master(ubuntu server 14.04) and minion(windows 7) i've try manage windows hosts. I try to set SomeData key with REG_BINARY value 0xF0 (one byte length) in windows registry ...

Nikolay Mishchenko
Oct 14, 2015 at 9:04 pm
Dec 5, 2015 at 10:15 pm

4	[salt-users] Salt minion on AIX

Hi folks, did anyone installed and configured salt-minion on AIX? There's a guide or documentation about that? Thanks in advance. Daniel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the ...

Daniel
Oct 28, 2015 at 3:33 pm
Nov 4, 2015 at 12:59 pm

4	[salt-users] Rejecting the minion key from master and accepting it back, brings down the minion daemon. How to make sure progrmatically that after accept minions are started back.

Hi, I am in a need where in particular situation I reject the minion keys After sometime I accept back the minion keys. But now when I try to execute some commands on the minion, it fails as minion ...

Shubhendu Tripathi
Oct 20, 2015 at 6:13 pm
Nov 4, 2015 at 2:57 am

4	[salt-users] worker_threads bug?

Can somebody verify this as a bug? It looks like that the last worker erroneously spawned another 5 workers!? Regards, Onno ### terminal output [root@test ~]# salt --version salt 2015.5.6 (Lithium) ...

Onno
Oct 29, 2015 at 11:50 am
Nov 3, 2015 at 6:33 pm

4	[salt-users] salt-cloud 2015.8 and EC2

I've switched my saltstack repository to https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/rhel6, which I assume is the correct version for running under AWS Linux. I then installed the following SaltStack packages ...

Mdeggers
Oct 7, 2015 at 12:40 am
Oct 30, 2015 at 6:38 pm

4	[salt-users] both salt-master and salt-minion processes are running in the same server

Is it normal that seeing both salt-master processes and salt-minion processes running in the same server? I suppose only the master server will run the salt-master process and only the minion servers ...

Andy Hoho
Oct 28, 2015 at 6:54 pm
Oct 28, 2015 at 11:14 pm

4	[salt-users] jinja2 RHEL 6 & salt update pain

The most recent version of jinja2 for RHEL 6 is 2.2.1 which doesn't support the "mapping" test <http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/dev/templates/#tests (which is used in many salt formulas) . Currently I ...

Hugh Crissman
Oct 22, 2015 at 3:14 pm
Oct 27, 2015 at 9:43 am

4	[salt-users] using salt-call to fire off an event leading to a system update and subsequent reboot

I am trying to figure out the reactor system and create a way for a sync script to set off a chain of events After a cron run this would be embedded as the last item in a shell script salt-call ...

BKeep
Oct 17, 2015 at 5:16 am
Oct 21, 2015 at 10:08 pm

4	[salt-users] How to mark multipart state as failed if at least one part was failed.

Hello. Currently we're trying to set up our CI / CD processes with Docker, Jenkins and SaltStack. Jenkins is watching the updates and calls Salt API in order to prepare, configure and deploy Docker ...

Vitaly Isaev
Oct 1, 2015 at 3:00 pm
Oct 20, 2015 at 9:15 am

4	[salt-users] How to format state.highstate TERSE output

Hi, I wonder if there is a way to format output produced by state.highstate. I'd like to report the ID: rather than the Name: in the terse output. Given this state file root@dorado Salt# cat ...

Darren Kinley
Oct 14, 2015 at 12:37 am
Oct 16, 2015 at 10:29 pm

4	[salt-users] Help with custom sls for windows minion and serving from internal web repo

Hi, I’m trying to write my own windows sls files for a software repo that we host internally. I have set up an http repo served over lighttpd. When doing a simple test using a web browser (on the ...

Chris Ord
Oct 11, 2015 at 11:39 pm
Oct 13, 2015 at 1:28 pm

4	[salt-users] Call another runner's function from a salt runner?

Hello, I've been scratching my head trying to figure out how to do this. I have a need to use the jobs.list_jobs and jobs.lookup_jid in a salt runner that I'm writing. If I use the RunnerClient, that ...

Luis Pollo
Oct 9, 2015 at 8:32 pm
Oct 9, 2015 at 9:38 pm

4	[salt-users] This seems easy, I must be missing something

Say I have a pillar that looks like this: verified: options: - option1key: option1value - option2key: option2value How do I access both the key and the value by name? I have something like this, but ...

Charles Burton
Oct 7, 2015 at 9:06 pm
Oct 9, 2015 at 1:40 pm

3	[salt-users] Fedora Packages?

The Fedora Salt packages used to get updated quite promptly... Now we don't even have 2015.5.6, much less 2015.8.1. This is especially worrisome given that 2015.5.6 is a security update. Any word on ...

Jeffrey Ollie
Oct 30, 2015 at 3:59 pm
Dec 1, 2015 at 12:36 am

3	[salt-users] Salt Loader SSH Error

Hey everyone, This morning I upgraded my master to 2015.8.1 and noticed that in my logs I am getting a lot of the following errors. 2015-10-22 10:33:25,818 [salt.loader ][ERROR ] Failed to import ...

Blake Ferkingstad
Oct 22, 2015 at 3:37 pm
Nov 30, 2015 at 10:01 pm

3	[salt-users] disable returns from minions -

Is there a way to disable returns from events to be returned? I think the behaviour of default master cache + returner is overkilled for those who is using returner. -- You received this message ...

Daniel Jung
Oct 30, 2015 at 1:03 am
Nov 13, 2015 at 6:59 pm

3	[salt-users] Where does a salt-ssh get it's modules from?

I'm using the logrotate module with salt-ssh. I want to make some modifications to it. So I cloned a fork of the repository and used setup.py to install 2015.8.1-79-g342144a. This seemed to work ok ...

Jeffery Tang
Oct 20, 2015 at 5:22 pm
Nov 13, 2015 at 6:52 pm

3	[salt-users] Unable to use PIP with SaltStack

Hello, As described in https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/26493 I am unable to use PIP with 2015.5.3, and when I upgrade to 2015.8.1, I am getting a different error. With 2015.5.3 I get a ...

Syed Ali
Oct 30, 2015 at 5:33 am
Nov 13, 2015 at 6:14 pm

3	[salt-users] New salt minions not reporting salt-mine data configured by pillar, initially

I'm using pillar dataI specify several mine_functions using pillar data; however, I'm dismayed to discover that those values aren't reported to the salt master even hours after the instance boots ...

Tim
Oct 27, 2015 at 3:06 pm
Nov 3, 2015 at 6:26 pm

3	[salt-users] When are grains available after setting them with a Salt State?

Background: I'd like to set some grains in one state and have them available to subsequent states. I'd prefer not to wait for high state to run again. I am using a masterless configuration, if that ...

Scott Edwards
Oct 26, 2015 at 8:43 pm
Nov 3, 2015 at 5:57 pm

3	[salt-users] Not able to use pillar: "Jinja variable 'blahblah' is undefined"

I tried to test out pillar but got this error: "Jinja variable 'blahblah' is undefined". Any idea??? Thanks. What I did: (1) created a install-vim.sls file under /srv/salt/ root@saltmaster:/srv/salt# ...

Andy Hoho
Oct 29, 2015 at 5:19 pm
Oct 30, 2015 at 4:08 pm

3	[salt-users] salt returners

Hi Salt Folks, I'm new to salt and I'm trying to use salt returners to fetch the output of my grains info to mysql database. For instance I want to get os level, hardware information and network ...

David Toledo
Oct 24, 2015 at 1:01 am
Oct 30, 2015 at 10:21 am

3	[salt-users] very very slow highstate runs after upgrade to 2015.8.1

All my machines are rhel based and I noticed after upgrading to 2015.8.1, highstate runs take much much longer. For example, on a rhel 6 machine before the upgrade the run took 7 seconds. Then I ...

Hugh Crissman
Oct 28, 2015 at 9:58 pm
Oct 29, 2015 at 7:42 pm

3	[salt-users] Salt cloud and softlayer, restarting VM's from salt cloud

Hi all, I was looking through the docs and code for salt cloud and Softlayer. I am probably missing it, but how can I restart a server using salt cloud? Regards, Mark -- You received this message ...

Mark van der Walle
Oct 20, 2015 at 1:11 pm
Oct 28, 2015 at 8:53 pm

3	[salt-users] Mac-Osx docker

Currently is there anyway to have dockerng module working on mac osx tls enabled docker. I tried setting environment variable DOCKER_CERT_PATH: /Users/alpha/.docker/machine/machines/dev DOCKER_HOST ...

Adithep SriNarula
Oct 19, 2015 at 12:34 pm
Oct 23, 2015 at 3:17 pm

3	[salt-users] python-zmq and salt rpm from saltstack repo

It would be useful if the Salt RPMs from the Saltstack repo (for rhel6 at least) required python-zmq = 14.5, instead of the current simple require of python-zmq without a version spec. The version I ...

Ethan Erchinger
Oct 12, 2015 at 5:03 pm
Oct 21, 2015 at 8:46 pm

3	[salt-users] salt mine and environments

Hi, I am using SaltStack with multiple environment definitions, and wanted to know if/how mine functions interact with environments. I am trying to use a single master that works with multiple ...

Ross Black
Oct 9, 2015 at 10:17 am
Oct 20, 2015 at 9:19 am

3	[salt-users] Getting orchestrate to stop mid-run

Had a quick question - I was curious as to how you can actually get orchestrate to stop, mid run? I don't want the run to continue if a previous step failed. Here's a contrived example: cmd.run ...

Steve Hajducko
Oct 6, 2015 at 9:09 pm
Oct 16, 2015 at 12:04 am

3	[salt-users] cp.push_dir glob only works for leading globs

eg salt-call cp.push_dir /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts glob='ifcfg-*' does not work, but: salt-call cp.push_dir /etc/salt/minion.d glob='*.conf' does. Bug or feature? (It looks buggy to me, and it ...

Noah Birnel
Oct 5, 2015 at 10:38 pm
Oct 15, 2015 at 9:34 pm

3	[salt-users] salt-cloud & setting hostname after salt is installed

Hi, I am new to salt-cloud, and finally have it successfully provisioning Linux vm's, however the resulting vm's still have the template's hostname. Is there a recommended way of having salt-cloud ...

Schlag ify
Oct 12, 2015 at 5:22 pm
Oct 14, 2015 at 7:35 pm

3	[salt-users] bootstrapping salt onto pxe-booted minion

Hi all, We're deploying new minions using pxe-boot. I'm looking to get them salted. The best idea I have so far is to trigger a salt event when the dhcp server allocates the IP and then run ...

Andrew Hammond
Oct 9, 2015 at 1:40 am
Oct 9, 2015 at 6:35 pm

3	[salt-users] Having a hard time getting requisites to work

Can somebody provide an actual working example similar to abstract mentioned in https://docs.saltstack.com/en/getstarted/config/requisites.html ? I am having a beast of a time seeing "require" work ...

Nathan Morris
Oct 2, 2015 at 3:21 am
Oct 8, 2015 at 8:32 pm

3	[salt-users] pkg state kwargs

Hello, I'm having a hard time implementing the following kwargs in the pkg state; update-packages: pkg.uptodate: - refresh: True *- fromrepo: updates* I want to enable only yum updates from the ...

Saltycdr
Oct 5, 2015 at 2:46 pm
Oct 8, 2015 at 9:01 am

3	[salt-users] Bypassing file.recurse

I need to be able to bypass file.recurse based on a pillar value but have been unable to get it to work. Anyone tried that? [Infor]<http://www.infor.com/ Greg Bell | Systems Administrator, Sr. | SaaS ...

Greg Bell
Oct 6, 2015 at 3:08 pm
Oct 6, 2015 at 4:09 pm

2	[salt-users] py model in pillar to minion?

Hi all, I have a python model file to do something and want to release to minion, then every pillar's sls file can rend it by the python model, How can I do it? Thanks! -- You received this message ...

Y he
Oct 26, 2015 at 2:30 am
Nov 4, 2015 at 1:51 am

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