Issue #19153 has been updated by Charlie Sharpsteen.
Jo, Thanks for the clarification concerning how puppet is interacting with cron and mcollective in your setup---this helps a lot. Earlier you stated that "I saw cron-run puppets kill themselves off". Could you provide some specific details on how you determined that it was the cron-controlled agents, and only the cron-controlled agents, that were being killed after adding `--no-daemonize` to the crontab? I ask because it looks plausible that the cron agents are killing the mcollective agents as the latter are daemonized and the former are hunting for daemons to kill. ---------------------------------------- Bug #19153: service puppet ensure stopped kills off cron-run puppet with "Caught TERM; calling stop" https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/19153#change-84504 Author: Jo Rhett Status: Needs More Information Priority: Urgent Assignee: Jo Rhett Category: agent Target version: 3.1.1 Affected Puppet version: 3.1.0 Keywords: Branch: We have recently switched from puppet agent in daemon mode (for kick) to cron-run puppet with mcollective agent. However, I started noticing that puppet policies were being inconsistently applied across the hosts. It turns out that this policy is the problem: <pre> service { 'puppet': ensure => stopped, enable => false, require => File['/etc/cron.d/puppet','/etc/puppet/puppet.conf'], } </pre> I have checked and confirmed that the puppet init script returns the correct response even when puppet is running. If I run "puppet agent --test" in one window and while it is running I run this in the other window, it shows clear: <pre> root@sj2-noc01 ~$ service puppet status ; echo $? puppet is stopped 3 </pre> However, if I run puppet in a silent mode with --onetime and --no-daemon then the init script returns this value <pre> root@sj2-noc01 ~$ service puppet status ; echo $? puppet (pid 30406) is running... 0 </pre> This causes it to kill itself off, and not finish the run. Due to the semi-random nature of ordering, this happens near the end or near the beginning of the puppet run on different hosts. (there are few dependancies on the puppet module, so its order in the manifest is random from host to host) This is clearly a major flaw. We need the above policy to ensure that no puppet daemons are running, however it interferes with the cron-run instance. However it is handled properly when run verbosely with test. Environment is a mixture of CentOS 5 & 6. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
