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LEARNING PUPPET

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LEARNING PUPPET

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Puppet
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Prerequisites


Before we start looking at particular error situations, I'll switch over to use the GNOME Terminal program and connect to the virtual machines via SSH instead of connecting using the VirtualBox console. The Terminal program enables me to adjust the background color to white, which makes error messages more visible and easier to read.

In this chapter, you can continue using the VirtualBox console, but in case you wish to make the same adjustments, then here is a breakdown of the changes that I'm going to do before we continue:

  1. Open the GNOME Terminal.

  2. Click on the Edit menu, and select Profile Preferences.

  3. In the Profile Preferences menu, go to the Colours tab.

  4. Uncheck the box that says Use colours from system theme.

  5. Click on the Background Colour tab, and select the white color.

  6. Click on the Select button to apply the changes:

To log on to the virtual machine via SSH, we have to look up the IP address of the virtual machine. The IP address can be found by running the hostname-I command...