The one thing that I'll mention is that you want to use "hasstatus => true" whenever possible, I've found, at least on older versions of Puppet (0.25.x). Sometimes the logic it tries to use otherwise doesn't quite work, but using the "/etc/init.d/<servicename> status" check seems to work fine.
-- Nathan Clemons http://www.livemocha.com The worlds largest online language learning community On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Christopher Wood < christopher_w...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 08:21:34PM +0000, Dan White wrote: > > Are there any exapmples out there that show an intelligent way to do this > ? > > http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/type.html#service > > That makes it sound like as long as you have the right init script (or > platform-specific variant thereof) installed, puppet will do the right > thing. > > > My searches are not turning up anything useful > > > > “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere > in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” > > Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.