Issue #19153 has been updated by Charlie Sharpsteen.
Alright, first let's double check that it is the cron jobs and not a respawned daemon that is getting killed off since both will emit messages to the syslog of the form: puppet-agent[<pid>]: Caught TERM; calling stop So, if you could temporarily redirect the agent's log to somewhere other than the syslog when running under cron: * * * * * puppet agent --onetime --no-daemonize --logdest /tmp/puppet-cron.log and tell me if the kills are showing up in `/tmp/puppet-cron.log`. ---------------------------------------- Bug #19153: service puppet ensure stopped kills off cron-run puppet with "Caught TERM; calling stop" https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/19153#change-83503 Author: Jo Rhett Status: Investigating Priority: Urgent Assignee: Charlie Sharpsteen Category: agent Target version: 3.1.1 Affected Puppet version: 3.1.0 Keywords: Branch: We have recently switched from puppet agent in daemon mode (for kick) to cron-run puppet with mcollective agent. However, I started noticing that puppet policies were being inconsistently applied across the hosts. It turns out that this policy is the problem: <pre> service { 'puppet': ensure => stopped, enable => false, require => File['/etc/cron.d/puppet','/etc/puppet/puppet.conf'], } </pre> I have checked and confirmed that the puppet init script returns the correct response even when puppet is running. If I run "puppet agent --test" in one window and while it is running I run this in the other window, it shows clear: <pre> root@sj2-noc01 ~$ service puppet status ; echo $? puppet is stopped 3 </pre> However, if I run puppet in a silent mode with --onetime and --no-daemon then the init script returns this value <pre> root@sj2-noc01 ~$ service puppet status ; echo $? puppet (pid 30406) is running... 0 </pre> This causes it to kill itself off, and not finish the run. Due to the semi-random nature of ordering, this happens near the end or near the beginning of the puppet run on different hosts. (there are few dependancies on the puppet module, so its order in the manifest is random from host to host) This is clearly a major flaw. We need the above policy to ensure that no puppet daemons are running, however it interferes with the cron-run instance. However it is handled properly when run verbosely with test. Environment is a mixture of CentOS 5 & 6. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.