Thanks a bunch, this has helped immensely. I can see that a lot of
server. Now I've got the daemon running and successfully doing some
> Hi Dan,
> I am an absolute beginner at Puppet, but I do have it running under
> 10.5 and am using it for package management of our Mac laptops and
> desktops. I haven't used puppet on 10.4 though.
> I use Nigel Kerstens packages from
> https://sites.google.com/a/explanatorygap.net/puppet/ and have had no
> trouble with them.
> You don't have to make users on the mac because puppet only runs as
> root, I believe due to a limitation in how macosx works.
> My rough notes on getting started are:
> 1) Install Puppet and Factor packages from Nigel's site
> 2) create /etc/puppet/puppet.conf with the following content
> [main]
> user = 0
> group = 0
> server = puppet.example.com
> certname = puppet. example.com
> autosign = false
> [puppetd]
> evaltrace = true
> factsync = true
> 3) create /etc/puppet/fileserver.conf
> [facts]
> path /etc/puppet/dist/facts
> allow *
> [files]
> path /etc/puppet/dist/files
> allow *
> 4) mkdir /etc/puppet/dist/facts
> 5) mkdir /etc/puppet/dist/files
> 6) create /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp (can be empty to start with)
> 7) sudo puppetmasterd --no-daemonize --verbose
> That should get your puppetmasterd running.
> I use the Launchd script from
> https://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetWithLaunchd to keep
> it running.
> I hope that helps,
> Marcus.
> On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Daniel Koblas
> <itsupp...@chrisking.com> wrote:
>> Hello group,
>> I am new to puppet and trying to get it running on a 10.4.11
>> server. I've
>> tried installing puppet using every method I can find (os x pkg
>> files, ruby
>> gems, compiling from source), to no avail. I have followed the
>> documentation on the reductivelabs site as carefully as possible,
>> as well as
>> doing a bit of experimenting on my own, and have not been able to
>> get it to
>> run.
>> When I run
>> # /usr/bin/puppetmasterd --mkusers
>> I get this in the system.log:
>> Feb 6 12:53:57 server puppetmasterd[11917]:
>> (/Settings[top]/Settings[main]/Group[puppet]/ensure) created
>> Feb 6 12:54:01 server puppetmasterd[11917]:
>> (/Settings[top]/Settings[main]/User[puppet]/ensure) created
>> Feb 6 12:54:01 server puppetmasterd[11917]:
>> (/Settings[top]/Settings[metrics]/File[/var/puppet/rrd]) Failed to
>> retrieve
>> current state of resource: Could not find user puppet
>> Feb 6 12:54:01 server puppetmasterd[11917]:
>> (/Settings[top]/Settings[main]/File[/var/puppet/log]) Failed to
>> retrieve
>> current state of resource: Could not find user puppet
>> Feb 6 12:54:01 server puppetmasterd[11917]:
>> (/Settings[top]/Settings[reporting]/File[/var/puppet/reports])
>> Failed to
>> retrieve current state of resource: Could not find user puppet
>> It looks like it creates the users, but it doesn't - I can see no
>> evidence
>> of it doing so. The puppetmasterd quits on failure, returning the
>> 3 errors
>> here to stdout as well as the system.log file. I have not been
>> able to find
>> any detailed information about how to set this up on OS X or what
>> I might be
>> doing wrong nor have I had any success in getting the daemon to
>> run. Any
>> help would be greatly appreciated.
>> Thanks in advance.
>> -Dan
