i use puppet 0.25.4 on ubuntu 10.04,when puppet installed ,i got the infor below : Nov 29 10:30:30 puppet puppetmasterd[4422]: Host is missing hostname and/or domain: pclient.example.com Nov 29 10:30:30 puppet puppetmasterd[4422]: Compiled catalog for pclient.example.com in 0.02 seconds i dont know how to fix it ,who can help me thank you ! my configuration : I use apt-get to install the puppet,so some configuration have been fixed puppet.conf on client : > [main] server=puppet.example.com > logdir=/var/log/puppet > vardir=/var/lib/puppet > ssldir=/var/lib/puppet/ssl > rundir=/var/run/puppet > factpath=$vardir/lib/facter > pluginsync=false > templatedir=$confdir/templates > prerun_command=/etc/puppet/etckeeper-commit-pre > postrun_command=/etc/puppet/etckeeper-commit-post > certname=pclient.example.com > node_name=cert [puppetd] > runinterval=30 puppet.conf on server: > [main] logdir=/var/log/puppet > vardir=/var/lib/puppet > ssldir=/var/lib/puppet/ssl > rundir=/var/run/puppet > factpath=$vardir/lib/facter > pluginsync=true > templatedir=$confdir/templates > prerun_command=/etc/puppet/etckeeper-commit-pre > postrun_command=/etc/puppet/etckeeper-commit-post i user the default node on site.pp i am a newer to puppet,so i dont know the reason for these problems!! thank you again!!!