If you're using separate node definition files and import them into site.pp with an import *.node (for example) you'll find that new files added won't get noticed until you restart puppetmasterd.

I had a user ask for Java to be installed on the cluster systems, so I started up by making a simple JRE5 module for puppet, but this first one didn’t quite work: class jre5 { package {

Binary packages are standalone binary installers that are precompiled; they do not require MacPorts on the target system. Binary files created with MacPorts may be either .pkg (Mac OS X Installer

We got a lot of Debian servers and it's impractical to issue an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' on all of them separately. Also, we do not want unsupervised upgrades, since that could mess stuff up.

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.