Would it be overkill to be worried about launching the puppet agent before the 
last run has finished ?

If so, I would use a bash script that generates a pid-file like this:
http://www.xarg.org/2009/10/write-a-pid-file-in-bash/

That way, if the previous run is still running, you can skip doing it again and 
probably send out a notification that there are serious problems causing it to 
hang or run too long.

“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in 
the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)

----- Peter Berghold <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> If you are running out of cron you run the risk of multiple client systems
> accessing your puppet master all at once. This can become a scaling issue.
> My advice is to just execute "puppet agent" on bootup (or manually) on each
> machine and let them figure out when to talk to the master.

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