On Friday, April 5, 2013 5:48:10 PM UTC-5, Sy Doveton wrote: > > Hi, > > I am new to puppet and am experimenting with some basic commands. I have a > puppetmaster server and a couple or servers with puppet client. All servers > are running ubuntu. > > I have set up the link between the master and the clients and their certs > have been signed etc. > > The clients have had puppet started via 'service puppet start' and can > confirm they are running with 'service puppet status'. > > When I make any changes on the master nothing happens on the servers. I > have waited a couple of hours and e.g. the required package has not been > installed on the client. As soon as I run on the client:- > > puppetd --test > > It will immediately install the package so I know my manifests / modules > are correct as it does what I request when I manually ask it. I just need > it to run periodically automatically and get the latest info from the > master. > > Any ideas of things I can check? >
It sounds like the 'runinterval' configuration option on the clients may be set to something very large. The puppet default is 1800 (seconds), but the packager could have provided a larger value so as to sync less frequently. The configuration file is normally /etc/puppet/puppet.conf. John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
