Many thanks to all , who responded. I'm going to evaluate the one or
other workaround now.
regards
Lutz
On Mar 9, 4:55 pm, James Cammarata <j...@sngx.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 07:11:01 -0800 (PST), Lutz Bergner
>
> <lutz.berg...@tomtom.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> > this one sounds silly , but so far I failed.:
>
> > starting my clients with "puppetd --listen" and puppetrun is working
> > fine. But puppetd is doing its runs every half an hour (per default)
> > despite I have configured "ignoreschedules=true"
> > Here comes my client puppet.conf
> > What am I doing wrong.
>
> Here's what we do.
>
> In sites.pp, we have this as the first line:
>
> import "schedules"
>
> This is /etc/puppet/manifests/schedules.pp:
>
> schedule { never:
> period => never,
> repeat => 0
>
> }
>
> Then, back in sites.pp, we set a global default for files to use the
> "never" schedule:
>
> # Set global defaults
> File { schedule => "never" }
>
> You can do this for all resource types if you like. Next, in our
> puppet.conf on all systems, we added this, just so puppetd doesn't try to
> connect pack to the puppet server every 30 minutes just to do nothing:
>
> runinterval = 31536000
>
> That's 10 years, so puppetd will run once when it starts up (but not do
> anything because of the default schedule), but then pretty much never check
> back in on its own. This is actually a hold-over from when we were using
> puppetrun, but since we're using puppetd with "--onetime --no-daemonize"
> it's not really required anymore.
>
> In order to make puppetd execute, we use --ignoreschedules on the command
> line when running puppetd manually with --onetime. We feel it's a pretty
> good fail-safe, since a new admin who didn't know our setup probably
> wouldn't think to use --ignoreschedules by default.
>
> Hope this helps :)
>
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