On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Ian Mortimer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> The service in this case is ypbind but it could apply to other
> services. The problem is that `service ypbind status' returns 0
> if the service is running even if it's not bound to the domain.
>
> Replacing hasstatus with `status => "/usr/bin/ypwhich"' doesn't
> fix it either because puppet will then try to start the service
> (instead of restarting it) which fails because it's already running.
>
> To cover both cases (not running or running but not bound), I
> configured it like this:
>
> service { "ypbind":
> ensure => running,
> enable => true,
> hasrestart => true,
> hasstatus => true,
> require => Package["ypbind"],
> }
> exec { "/sbin/service ypbind restart":
> path => ["/usr/bin", "/sbin"],
> unless => "ypwhich"
> }
>
> That works but I was wondering if there's a better way not
> using exec.
You might even need to specify so much logic you may as well deliver
this as a script, but if you don't, I believe this should work.
service { "ypbind":
...
restart => "/usr/bin/ypbind && /usr/bin/ypwhich",
...
}
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