On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Mike Renfro <ren...@tntech.edu> wrote: > > On 2/26/2009 11:14 AM, Paul Lathrop wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Kyle Cordes <k...@kylecordes.com> wrote: >>> I am sure there is a good use for some aspect of the -w 0 feature; the >>> part I don't think there is a good use for, is writing 70,000 entries >>> per minute to syslog, or for trying to connect in a tight loop for 12 >>> hours. I am sure there is a way for it to do what you need it to do, >>> without doing those other things. > >> Your complaint is valid; this should not be the default behavior, and >> it *isn't* -- your beef should be with the package maintainer who >> misconfigured the tool, not with the tool itself. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=509566 is probably tbe > most relevant discussion, and matches my dim recollections. Back when I > first started using puppet, "-w 0" caused the first run of puppetd to > ask for a cert, and if it didn't get a response, it would exit out and > wait for you to restart it. But any other argument to -w would cause > puppetd to hang the boot process until its certificate got signed. Both > were annoying, but at least "-w 0" let you log into the system to > restart puppetd. > > Sometime later, "-w 0" was no longer a special case, and caused puppetd > to behave like you're seeing now: tight loops checking for certificates > and writing errors into the logs. If "-w 120" doesn't cause a puppetd > hang any more, then I'd guess that ought to be the default again. I can > afford to burn 2 minutes on reinstalling a new system (I've got base > preseed installations down into the 5 minute range, and can get a > cluster node tied to the Active Directory and install all my software > within an hour or so).
Thanks for the link. There *is* a Puppet bug here; the documentation doesn't match the behavior. I'll take a look. --Paul --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
