On 27.06.2012, at 11:01, Felix Frank wrote: > On 06/27/2012 10:51 AM, Matthew Burgess wrote: >> is there something special about >> the puppet service that it issuing the equivalent of 'service puppet >> restart' doesn't actually work? > > Oh, it works, but think of what you're having puppet do: By calling the > initscript and telling it to restart, it first has to "stop puppet", > i.e., send TERM to the agent process. So the agent is committing suicide > mid-run, taking the invocation of the initscript with it. Now nobody's > there to start puppet up again. > > I've worked around this using exec { "echo service puppet restart | at > now+5min" } in the past, but this is quite the hack. Personally I have > found the cron model much more convenient that the long-running agent.
We redefined the restart command: restart => '/usr/bin/nohup /etc/init.d/puppet restart &' - Martin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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.