On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:03 PM, jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org> wrote: > > > On Monday, October 1, 2012 3:56:42 PM UTC-5, Darin Perusich wrote: >> >> Is there an way for puppet to not check whether a service is running >> or not? I'm basically looking for the equivalent of enable => manual >> for Linux systems, I think. This would be useful when the service >> itself is under the control of a CRM like Pacemaker or I want to give >> control of the service to an end user, say both tomcat and glassfish >> are on the same box and they want to run one instead of the other. > > > > I suspect it's not possible to prevent Puppet from checking whether a > managed service is running, but it may be possible to prevent it from > managing whether the service is running. Try omitting the 'ensure' > parameter altogether.
You are correct...by omitting the "ensure" the service is no longer checked to if it's running or not. Thanks! > Note that if you're not managing whether the service is running, then the > only other thing about it you can be managing is whether it starts at boot > (via the 'enable' parameter). If you don't want to manage that either, then > just don't declare a Service resource in the first place. > > >> >> Supposedly the Example42 modules support this by disableboot=>true, >> but that doesn't appear to do anything other than set "enable => >> false" for the service and I don't see how that stops Puppet from >> checking whether the service is up or down. >> > > It doesn't, but what's the harm in just checking? > > I haven't looked at the modules you're talking about, but perhaps they do as > I suggested? It would be fairly easy to overlook complete omission of a > parameter -- much more so than to overlook a special parameter value. > > > John > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/GdMKCawsHsoJ. > 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.
