On 27.06.2012, at 11:01, Felix Frank wrote:
> On 06/27/2012 10:51 AM, Matthew Burgess wrote:
>> is there something special about
>> the puppet service that it issuing the equivalent of 'service puppet
>> restart' doesn't actually work?
>
> Oh, it works, but think of what you're having puppet do: By calling the
> initscript and telling it to restart, it first has to "stop puppet",
> i.e., send TERM to the agent process. So the agent is committing suicide
> mid-run, taking the invocation of the initscript with it. Now nobody's
> there to start puppet up again.
>
> I've worked around this using exec { "echo service puppet restart | at
> now+5min" } in the past, but this is quite the hack. Personally I have
> found the cron model much more convenient that the long-running agent.
We redefined the restart command:
restart => '/usr/bin/nohup /etc/init.d/puppet restart &'
- Martin
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