== Configuring geekblox server == You might run into a few problems with geekblox server configuration. Using our freepuppet-helper for both geekblox servers fela and femi threw one or both of these error: {{{ remote: Could not retrieve hostname: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known remote: warning: Could not retrieve fact fqdn }}} It seems that the default configurations of these servers require us to modify the dns and host settings of the server itself. Here's are files to check, if you run into these errors. * /etc/hostname * /etc/hosts * /etc/resolv.conf On fela this is what they look like respectively, you should replace fela below with the actual server name and correct ip address. '''/etc/hostname''' {{{ fela }}} '''/etc/hosts''' {{{ 127.0.0.1 localhost 74.119.238.34 fela.mayfirst.org fela # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters }}} '''/etc/resolv.conf''' {{{ nameserver 4.2.2.1 }}} /etc/resolve.conf should only look like this for initial configuration. Puppet should change those values to the appropriate values. This is only for getting the initial puppet configurations working properly. === SSH Connection Problems === When working on geekblox (or probably any server we do not have console access too), it's possible using freepuppet-helper to block ssh access to the server. Since monkeysphere configuration files get loaded before the monkeysphere packages get installed, the ssh config can expect the monkeysphere and without it will fail. In order to avoid this, '''you should keep a live ssh session on the remote machine at all times'''. If you do lock yourself out, but still have a live session running, modify the following files to grant ssh access. '''/etc/ssh/sshd_config''' make sure you have a section that looks like this: {{{ RSAAuthentication yes PubkeyAuthentication yes # AuthorizedKeysFile /var/lib/monkeysphere/authorized_keys/%u AuthorizedKeysFile /root/.ssh/authorized_keys }}} You can also add password access by setting "PasswordAuthentication yes". If '''/root/.ssh/config''' has anything in it, comment out those lines. Then run: {{{ /etc/init.d/ssh reload }}} That should give you ssh access again.