Puppet and launchd services

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We have a production environment configured with Puppet, and want to be able to set up a similar environment on our development machines: a mix of Red Hats, Ubuntus and OSX. As might be expected, OSX is the odd man out here, and sadly, I'm having a lot of trouble with getting this to work.

My first attempt was using macports, using the following declaration:

package { 'rabbitmq-server':
    ensure   => installed,
    provider => macports,
}

but this, sadly, generates the following error:

Error: /Stage[main]/Rabbitmq/Package[rabbitmq-server]: Could not evaluate: Execution of '/opt/local/bin/port -q installed rabbitmq-server' returned 1: usage: cut -b list [-n] [file ...]
       cut -c list [file ...]
       cut -f list [-s] [-d delim] [file ...]
    while executing
"exec dscl -q . -read /Users/$env(SUDO_USER) NFSHomeDirectory | cut -d ' ' -f 2"
    (procedure "mportinit" line 95)
    invoked from within
"mportinit ui_options global_options global_variations"

Next up, I figured I'd give homebrew a try. There is no package provider available by default, but puppet-homebrew seemed promising. Here, I got much farther, and actually managed to get the install to work.

package { 'rabbitmq':
    ensure   => installed,
    provider => brew,
}
file { "plist":
    path   => "/Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.rabbitmq.plist",
    source => "/usr/local/opt/rabbitmq/homebrew.mxcl.rabbitmq.plist",
    ensure => present,
    owner  => root,
    group  => wheel,
    mode   => 0644,
}
service { "homebrew.mxcl.rabbitmq":
    enable      => true,
    ensure      => running,
    provider    => "launchd",
    require     => [ File["/Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.rabbitmq.plist"] ],
}

Here, I don't get any error. But RabbitMQ doesn't start either (as it does if I do a manual load with launchctl)


    [... snip ...]
    Debug: Executing '/bin/launchctl list'
    Debug: Executing '/usr/bin/plutil -convert xml1 -o /dev/stdout
        /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.rabbitmq.plist'
    Debug: Executing '/usr/bin/plutil -convert xml1 -o /dev/stdout
        /var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd/overrides.plist'
    Debug: /Schedule[weekly]: Skipping device resources because running on a host
    Debug: /Schedule[puppet]: Skipping device resources because running on a host
    Debug: Finishing transaction 2248294820
    Debug: Storing state
    Debug: Stored state in 0.01 seconds
    Finished catalog run in 25.90 seconds

What am I doing wrong?

Edit: For the record, we're now doing this with Vagrant VMs instead on our OSX machines, but the native solution would still be preferred.

Best Answer

Not sure if this is still an issue but it looks like this was a bug with the launchd provider fixed in 3.1.0. Bug: https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/16271

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