searching for a string in a directory hierarchy

Much of the puppet infrastructure I work with is unmapped – it is the result of tickets submitted and variables asked for by developers or placed as solutions. This exists above the structure we designed and created intentionally. To discover where a variable is set in puppet, often I search through the entire puppet working…

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puppet errors: puppetlock and puppet certs

In working with puppet I often get the error “puppet run already in progress”  when I know no such run is happening…   The solution is to delete the file /var/lib/puppet/state/puppetdlock and then try the run again.  The puppet command I use on the command line is: /usr/sbin/puppetd –server=puppet1 –onetime –no-daemonize –no-usecacheonfailure –ignorecache –no-noop -v…

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