Creating your own init script if one is not provided is definitely the best approach; but failing that, you can still use the "service" resource as a glorified exec; I've done this w/ my arpwatch daemon on redhat boxes since it's otherwise difficult to run multiple arpwatch daemons:
##
# maintains an arpwatch daemon for a specified interface
#
# $name: name of interface to monitor
#
define arpwatch::interface {
$interface = $name
service { "arpwatch.${interface}":
provider => "base",
ensure => running,
start => "/usr/sbin/arpwatch -i ${interface} -u arpwatch -e root -s 'root
(Arpwat
ch)'",
stop => "/usr/bin/pkill -f arpwatch.*${interface}",
status => "/usr/bin/pgrep -f arpwatch.*${interface}",
require => Class["arpwatch"],
}
}
-Doug
On 10/18/2011 04:21 PM, Dan White wrote:
> Are there any exapmples out there that show an intelligent way to do this ?
>
> My searches are not turning up anything useful
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