On Oct 21, 2010, at 3:13 AM, Trevor Hemsley wrote:

> About a year ago there was a discussion about why a puppetmaster process was 
> reparsing /etc/puppet/puppet.conf every 24 hours. The conclusion of that was 
> that it was down to a backup package called Netbackup which was resetting the 
> atime on the file as it backed it up. I seem to have a similar issue with a 
> different backup package (Atempo Tina) that is not under my control so I 
> cannot tell it to not reset the atime.
> 
> The problem is exacerbated by the fact that when my puppetmaster reparses 
> puppet.conf, it crashes and disappears so every night at 02:00 my 
> puppetmaster needs to be restarted :-( I'm running 0.24.8 still as I'm in the 
> middle of a data centre migration and don't want to change anything critical 
> until after I've gone live in the new DC.

First, I wouldn't be very surprised if it's fixed.  There had been a huge 
amount of refactoring since that version.

Second, I've never heard of this bug before, unless you're using a version of 
BSD.  Are you using a version of BSD?

Third, have you tried opening puppet.conf in a hex editor and looking for 
strange characters?

> Is this something that has been fixed in newer puppet builds? I suspect there 
> are two issues - one is the reparse just because the atime on puppet.conf is 
> reset back to its original value and the second is the crash.

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