[Puppet Users] Difference between puppet agent and puppetd

2012-08-17 Thread Axel Bock
Hello readers, I am wondering - what's the difference between executing puppet agent and puppetd? I am on SLES 11 SP2, and both commands want to use the /var/run/puppet/agent.pid lock file, both pull the configurations from the server, but they seem to be mutually exlusive. When I run sudo

Re: [Puppet Users] Difference between puppet agent and puppetd

2012-08-17 Thread Stuart Cracraft
I hope the rapidity of change and the quest for newness doesn't render the product less stable and predictable. On Aug 17, 2012, at 4:12 AM, Paul Tötterman paul.totter...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Axel, `puppetd` is the old ( 2.6.0?) way to call the agent, and `puppet agent` is the new way. The