Getting Puppetd To Work

[Robert L Cochran]

On 06/20/2009 10:07 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Robert L Cochran wrote:
>    
>> I'm getting messages like this in /var/log/messages when I run
>> puppetd (from the puppet client I think...the server is called
>> 'puppetmaster'.)
>>
>> Jun 20 19:16:00 deafeng3 puppetd[2556]: Could not find server :
>> getaddrinfo: Temporary failure in name resolution
>> Jun 20 19:16:00 deafeng3 puppetd[2556]: Could not retrieve catalog:
>> Could not find server puppet
>>      
>
> By default, puppet will look for a server named 'puppet'.  If your
> puppetmaster (aka puppet server) is named 'puppetmaster', you'd have
> to change the puppet configuration to make it look for 'puppetmaster'.
>
> I'd probably rename my puppetmaster instead of changing the puppet
> confif, at least until you get a bit more familiar with puppet.
> Though you do need to take care to re-create the puppetmaster
> certificates if you rename the puppetmaster.
>
>    
How do I rename my server to be "puppet" as you suggest?

How do I recreate the puppetmaster certificates?

The Selinux ifconfig denials I mentioned earlier always seem to start 
when puppet starts. And yes, I'm hoping to get puppet running on Fedora 11.


Thanks

Bob