On Oct 7, 2010, at 12:40 AM, Felix Frank wrote: > On 10/07/2010 04:48 AM, Patrick wrote: >> >> On Oct 6, 2010, at 5:20 PM, Mohamed Lrhazi wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:33 PM, James Louis <jgloui...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> if an instance of puppetd is already running then you'll get that error >>>> message when you try to start up another instance. also there may be a >>>> puppetd.pid left from the last time it was ran. you would then have to >>>> remove that pid file. >>>> >>> >>> Thanks James. I understand. >>> My question is that with --test option, the second puppetd seems to >>> work fine... Is it? >>> Should I just use --test option to run this second puppetd, or is >>> there a better way? >> >> I'm guessing that it will work if you run it with the -no-deamonize option. >> >> You really don't want to use --test. That will have other effects. > > Patrick, > > could you elaborate on that? > > Because --test is what we are using constantly here. I believe it's a > tip from "Pulling strings with puppet". > > From what I gathered, it's the standard way to enforce a run while > puppet is also running in daemon mode, which is quite exactly what > Mohammed needs. > > So what are the catches to be wary of?
Last I checked, you were's supposed to use --test for something non-interactive so --test might change. That means it's safer to just list off the options that --test sets. The ones I remember that it sets are: --verbose --onetime --no-daemonize Something like, "Don't use cached catalog on compile failure" I think there's something that affects how long is should wait for a cert. Anyway, I think that "--verbose --onetime --no-daemonize" is all people usually want. Using --test still won't force a puppet run if the service is also applying a run at the same time. It just allows you to run two copies of puppetd at the same time. The reason why you can is the --no-daemonize flag, so it's usually safer to just list which flags you wanted from --test instead of using --test. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@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.
