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@@ -14,10 +14,12 @@ puppet's domain-specific language. The basic setup on each test machine is like this: - - the test machine has a copy of this repo (usually at /var/qtqa/sysadmin) + - the test machine has a copy of this repo (usually at /var/qtqa/sysadmin, + or c:\qtqa\sysadmin on Windows) - - a script is run by a cron job on the test machine which updates the repo - and runs puppet (in one-shot mode, not as a daemon) + - a script is run by a cron job (unix) / scheduled task (Windows) on the + test machine which updates the repo and runs puppet (in one-shot mode, + not as a daemon) Getting the machine up and running to this point requires that at least git and puppet are installed, and a clone of this repo has been done. @@ -37,7 +39,15 @@ write up your own bootstrap script as you go :-) OTHER NOTES =========== -To temporarily disable the usage of puppet, touch /var/qtqa/sysadmin/puppet/disable_puppet +To temporarily disable the usage of puppet, touch: + + /var/qtqa/sysadmin/puppet/disable_puppet + c:\qtqa\sysadmin\puppet\disable_puppet Using this repository in conjuction with a puppet server probably won't work due to our usage of the `generate' puppet function in a few places. + +On Unix, puppet will log to the system log. + +On Windows, puppet will log to c:\qtqa\sysadmin\puppet\last_puppet_run.txt, +but this is considered a FIXME until some better solution is implemented. |