On Oct 15, 2009, at 3:10 PM, Dan Bode wrote:
> there is also a param for service called "pattern" that allows you
> to specify the regex that should be used to determine the process
> (in case one of them doesnt properly implement status)
This is almost certainly the issue - Puppet just looks for the service
name in the process table, anywhere, if your init script doesn't have
a 'status' option and/or you haven't told Puppet to use it.
Try specifying hasstatus => true or a pattern.
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Matthias Saou
> <th...@spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net
> > wrote:
>
> Douglas Garstang <doug.garst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
> > It seems to me like there might be a bug here. Puppet appears to
> think
> > the syslog-ng and syslog service are the same thing and stops
> > syslog-ng instead of syslog.
> > If I change the name of the syslog service, like this...
> >
> > service { "XXXsyslog":
> > ensure => stopped,
> > enable => false;
> > }
> >
> > then puppet does NOT stop syslog-ng. Is it doing a regex search on
> the
> > first part of the service name or something and stopping when it
> gets
> > a match?
>
> I think puppet looks for the process name by default. What you want to
> do is use "hasstatus => true" after making sure that "service syslog
> status" returns a correct exit status (i.e. zero only when the service
> is actually running).
>
> Matthias
>
>
>
>
> >
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