Jira (PUP-2455) Puppet running as Solaris SMF service needs to run child processes in separate "contract"

[Dave Taylor (JIRA)]

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Dave Taylor commented on an issue   Re: Puppet running as Solaris SMF service needs to run child processes in separate "contract" I think it might need to be more generic than that, as init-based services aren't the only long-running processes that Puppet can run. For example, on later S10 releases running package management commands ("pkginfo -l", pkgadd) will start a server process called "pkgserv" which hangs around for 5 minutes in case any other package management occurs. That process would sit in the same contract as the Puppet agent, so for 5 minutes after an agent run this same issue could occur. [N.b. I logged the original Redmine issue] Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-2455 Puppet running as Solaris SMF service needs to run child processes in separate "contract" If Puppet is running on a Solaris server as an SMF service, and starts a long-running process - e.g. it starts a daemon via an init script - that process is within the same "contract" as the Puppet agent process. If the Puppet agent is stopped/restarted, SMF waits for the **contract** to finish, not just the agent process. As the daemon doesn't terminate,... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- 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 puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.