Hi, Am 06.05.2009 um 16:40 schrieb LenR:
> I'm trying to pitch puppet to my group. I have a test server & 2 > clients, things are going pretty well. The question relates to user > password management as outlined in the recipies. My question, if only > the hash value changes, will puppet apply that change? Who notices > the change, the client or the server? I need to explain how it works. The way I understand it, the server looks at the file when compiling the recipe for the client and calculates a hash value for the file. This hash value is the integrated in the recipe, which in turn is sent to the client. The client then looks at the files described in the recipe and checks if the hash values of the local files match the hash values sent by the server for those files. If they match, nothing happens, as the file is in the right state, if not, the client downloads the file from the server. That's a least the principle. You also have some layers of caching and checking timestamps to see if it's even necessary to recompute a hash, or if you can take the hash value from a previous run, and so on. BR, Felix --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
