On 2/26/2009 11:14 AM, Paul Lathrop wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Kyle Cordes <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am sure there is a good use for some aspect of the -w 0 feature; the >> part I don't think there is a good use for, is writing 70,000 entries >> per minute to syslog, or for trying to connect in a tight loop for 12 >> hours. I am sure there is a way for it to do what you need it to do, >> without doing those other things.
> Your complaint is valid; this should not be the default behavior, and > it *isn't* -- your beef should be with the package maintainer who > misconfigured the tool, not with the tool itself. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=509566 is probably tbe most relevant discussion, and matches my dim recollections. Back when I first started using puppet, "-w 0" caused the first run of puppetd to ask for a cert, and if it didn't get a response, it would exit out and wait for you to restart it. But any other argument to -w would cause puppetd to hang the boot process until its certificate got signed. Both were annoying, but at least "-w 0" let you log into the system to restart puppetd. Sometime later, "-w 0" was no longer a special case, and caused puppetd to behave like you're seeing now: tight loops checking for certificates and writing errors into the logs. If "-w 120" doesn't cause a puppetd hang any more, then I'd guess that ought to be the default again. I can afford to burn 2 minutes on reinstalling a new system (I've got base preseed installations down into the 5 minute range, and can get a cluster node tied to the Active Directory and install all my software within an hour or so). -- Mike Renfro / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
