On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Mike Renfro <ren...@tntech.edu> wrote: > > Jean-Baptiste Quenot wrote: >> 2009/4/6 Mike Renfro <ren...@tntech.edu>: >> >>> I'd normally expect that to work, but I just have puppet keep cron >>> running, and have a periodic cron job that checks if puppet has died, >>> and if so, restarts it: >> >> Interesting, but why would you expect Puppet to die? Would you expect >> Apache, Nginx or worse MySQL to die randomly like this?
Why not? Isn't that why we have sitters and puppet ensuring services are running? :) my 2c is that we had persistent performance and reliability problems with puppetd as a daemon, and switched to cron/launchd jobs that simply run puppetd --onetime --no-daemonize instead. > > At the time I put together that recipe, I didn't particularly expect > puppet to die randomly, but I knew there was a similar practice for > cfengine users. And though I wouldn't *expect* any of those other > services to die randomly, I'd certainly monitor all of them with Nagios > and write puppet manifests to restart them if they're found to be not > running. > > I have had some puppetd's die and get restarted from cron. On the few > dozen systems I have with puppetd, I don't think it happens even once > per day for the entire group. > > -- > Mike Renfro / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, > 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- ren...@tntech.edu > > > > -- Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com System Administrator Google, Inc. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
