steve koppelman wrote:
> I'm new at this. I've pored over the Quickstart and Best Practices.
> I've searched, looked through this list's archives, and here I am.

> When I run "puppet -d --parseonly site.pp on the following I get this:

> debug: importing 'base.pp'
> debug: importing 'httpserver.pp'
> err: Could not parse for environment development: Could not match
> 'class' at httpserver.pp:2

> When I take the contents of httpserver.pp and paste them into the end
> of site.pp instead, I get no errors.

> What am I doing wrong?

> Thanks.

> ------------------------------------------------------------

> #site.pp

> filebucket { main: server => puppet }

> File { backup => main }
> Exec { path => "/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin/:/
> bin:/sbin" }

> Package {
>     provider => $operatingsystem ? {
>         centos => yum,
>         redhat => up2date
>     }
> }

> schedule { everyfive:
>    period => hourly,
>    repeat => 12,
> }

> import "base"
> import "httpserver"

> -----

> # base.pp

> class base {
>    file { "/etc/passwd":
>            owner => root,
>            group => root,
>            mode  => 644,
>    }

>     host { "puppet":
>            ip     => "172.16.2.12",
>            ensure => present,
>    }

>     host { "svn":
>            alias  => ["svn.online", "svn.online.amexpub.com"],
>            ip     => "172.16.2.12",
>            ensure => present,
>    }

> }

> ---

> # httpserver.pp

> class httpserver {
>     package { "httpd":
>            ensure          => installed,
>            ensure          => running,
>            schedule        => everyfive,
>     }
>     service { "httpd":
>            subscribe => File["/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf"],
>     }
> }