On Nov 9, 2010, at 6:06 AM, Rob McBroom wrote:
> On Nov 5, 2010, at 4:20 PM, byron appelt wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to use a Service resource, but not have puppet start or
>> start the service? I want to declare service resources so that I can
>> easily make sure that puppet will restart them when packages are
>> upgraded, etc., but I do not want puppet to restart them if a sysadmin
>> shuts the down for some reason.
>
> Almost every service I have defined is set to start when the system boots,
> but Puppet won't start it if it's not running. Just leave the “ensure”
> parameter out entirely.
>
> service { "foo":
> enable => true,
> }
>
> And then you can either use “subscribe” on the service or “notify” on the
> packages, config files, etc. (Although I have to think most properly made
> packages will restart the service for you if needed.)
Just a warning: This will start the service if a config file is changed even if
the service was manually shutdown.
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