Puppet not applying my config

[macmichael01]

Hello,

I am running puppet 2.7.11 on my puppet client and puppet master.
I generated and signed my certs but for some reason my configurations
are not
being applied on my client box.

When running the following command it appears to be pulling the
configurations
but does not apply them. Is there a special command that I need to
run
initially to make this happen?

puppetd --server puppet.example.com --waitforcert 60 --test
info: Retrieving plugin
err: /File[/var/lib/puppet/lib]: Could not evaluate: Could not
retrieve information from environment production source(s)
puppet://puppet.example.com/plugins
info: Caching catalog for roxann
info: Applying configuration version '1337314498'
notice: Finished catalog run in 0.08 seconds

Here is the configuration that I am trying to apply:

/etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp
node default {
file { "/srv/test_file.txt":
owner => 'root',
group => 'root',
mode => '0777',
}
}

Thanks in advance!

[Peter Bukowinski]

Try adding an 'ensure => file,' attribute to the beginning of the file resource block. I believe puppet's default behavior is to *not* create a resource unless ensure is used to specify it.

--
Peter Bukowinski

[jcbollinger]

On May 24, 7:42 pm, Peter Bukowinski <pmb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On May 24, 2012, at 8:05 PM, macmichael01 <macmichae...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Here is the configuration that I am trying to apply:
>
> > /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp
> > node default {
> >    file { "/srv/test_file.txt":
> >        owner => 'root',
> >        group => 'root',
> >        mode  => '0777',
> >    }
> > }
>
> > Thanks in advance!
>
> Try adding an 'ensure => file,' attribute to the beginning of the file resource block.

Yes, do, but that's not the problem.

>I believe puppet's default behavior is to *not* create a resource unless ensure is used to specify it.

That is mistaken. Generally speaking, the default value for 'ensure'
parameters is "present" or some equivalent value. There has to be
some default value because otherwise the resource declaration is
meaningless. Puppet's default might actually be "file" for this
resource type, but it makes no actual difference in this case.


John

[jcbollinger]

On May 24, 7:05 pm, macmichael01 <macmichae...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am running puppet 2.7.11 on my puppet client and puppet master.
> I generated and signed my certs but for some reason my configurations
> are not
> being applied on my client box.
>
> When running the following command it appears to be pulling the
> configurations
> but does not apply them. Is there a special command that I need to
> run
> initially to make this happen?

No, but look here:

> info: Retrieving plugin
> err: /File[/var/lib/puppet/lib]: Could not evaluate: Could not
> retrieve information from environment production source(s)
> puppet://puppet.example.com/plugins

That looks like a misconfiguration, probably of the client. Puppet is
looking for its own plugins under /var/lib/puppet/lib, but that
directory doesn't exist. Those plugins include everything Puppet
would use to apply the catalog, so it's not surprising that nothing is
applied.

I don't know how Puppet got into this strange state, but you could try
to solve it by configuring the correct directory via a 'libdir'
parameter in the [main] section of puppet.conf.


John

[Stefan Schulte]

Just for the record:

That is not true for the filetype. The filetype has no default value for
ensure. If you do not specify ensure here it means: Manage the specified
attributes if file/directory is present, otherwise do nothing.

So if I e.g. just manage owner but not ensure and the resource is not
present...

# ls -l /tmp/test
ls: cannot access /tmp/test: No such file or directory
# puppet apply -ve 'file { "/tmp/test": owner => nobody }'
info: Applying configuration version '1338042729'
notice: Finished catalog run in 0.12 second

... puppet will not create the file. But if the file is present...

# touch /tmp/test
# puppet apply -ve 'file { "/tmp/test": owner => nobody }
info: Applying configuration version '1338042740'
notice: /Stage[main]//File[/tmp/test]/owner:
owner changed 'root' to 'nobody'

notice: Finished catalog run in 0.08 seconds

...Puppet will manage owner

-Stefan