[SOLVED] Transfer files in Puppet

vikas027 · 01-12-2011, 05:43 PM

Hi All,

I have setup a Puppet Server on my Cent OS 5.5 machines.

I have box1.test.com as Puppet Server
and
box2.test.com as Puppet Client

These are the packages involved :
puppet-server v0.22.4-1
puppet v0.22.4-1
facter v1.3.7-1
ruby v1.8.5

I am looking a class to transfer files from my Pupper Server to Puppet Clients.

I have used this code in /etc/puppet/manifests/nodes.pp

Code:

 
file { "/tmp/abc.sh":
        source => "puppet:///var/lib/puppet/files",
    }

Below, is my /etc/puppet/fileserver.conf

Code:

[files]
path /var/lib/puppet/files/
allow *.test.com

When, I try to use the above file syntax in Puppet Client, I get below errors.

Code:

 
#  puppetd --test --server=box1.test.com
notice: Ignoring cache
info: Caching configuration at /var/lib/puppet/localconfig.yaml
err: //box2/File[/tmp/abc.sh]/source: Could not describe /var/lib/puppet/files: Fileserver module 'var' not mounted
notice: Finished configuration run in 0.33 seconds
#

I have googled it but could not find anything which worked for me. I can make a shell script and run it, but I am looking to use this file syntax.

kbp · 01-12-2011, 08:13 PM

You really should read the doco, puppet is not the simplest application. Your config should look more like :

Code:

file { "abc.sh":
        path => "/tmp/abc.sh",
        source => "puppet:///files/abc.sh",
    }

Ref: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/file_serving.html

vikas027 · 01-23-2011, 01:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kbp

You really should read the doco, puppet is not the simplest application. Your config should look more like :

Code:

file { "abc.sh":
        path => "/tmp/abc.sh",
        source => "puppet:///files/abc.sh",
    }

Ref: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/file_serving.html

This did not worked for me for some reasons

Anyways, I made an alternative to run shell script for transferring file.