Just starting and already a little confused

[John Jordan]

Greetings,  I installed open-source puppet-server on RHEL 6 and in /etc/puppet I see the puppet.conf.

I see entries like:

# The default value is '$confdir/ssl'.
    ssldir = $vardir/ssl

My questions is where do (or should) these variables get set and why is the default here $vardir and not $confdir?

Also is there a page that shows how to create your initial /etc/puppet/manifest/site.pp file?
I did not get one during install

Thanx

-j

[kaustubh chaudhari]

i will answer the second part of the question!!

> Also is there a page that shows how to create your initial /etc/puppet/manifest/site.pp file?

You will have to create it! More details are here http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Simplest_Puppet_Install_Pattern

-Kaustubh

[jcbollinger]

You could simply do "touch /etc/puppet/manifest/site.pp".  The file must be readable by the puppetmaster process (so you might need to twiddle ownership or permissions), but there is no specific required content.

As you are just starting to play with Puppet, the first (and maybe the only) thing you are likely to want to put in your site.pp is one or more node declarations.  Again, there is no specific content required for those -- the whole point is that's were you declare what you want Puppet to manage on the target node(s).

Overall, I would recommend that you read the "The Puppet Language" section of the Puppet language reference (http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/3/reference/index.html), and at least skim the "Generated References"/"Resource Types" section.


John