Jira (PUP-1427) a metaparameter to control the timeout of that resource evaluation/application, along with a default value.

[Patrick Hemmer (JIRA)]

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Patrick Hemmer commented on an issue   Re: a metaparameter to control the timeout of that resource evaluation/application, along with a default value. I think a default infinity would be fine as long as there were a way to globally set it. You can set resource defaults per resource type, but if there's a way to set a parameter for all resources types, I am unaware of what it is. Every time I've been bitten by this issue, it's been on a resource that was not expected (a package installation, a service restart, etc). I know my systems, and that puppet never takes more than a minute or so for any given resource, so I'd like to set a global default of 5 minutes. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-1427 a metaparameter to control the timeout of that resource evaluation/application, along with a default value. I had some service (iscsid) which hung for ever for some reason (missing config file), when stopping it via `service iscsid stop`. As puppet should stop that service, puppet hung as well. Over days... I think it's pretty reasonable to expect services to be stopped after some time (like 10 minutes?) and if they didn't return so far, give up (and kill... 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.