Matt,
That worked fine - thanks for that... (Finally managed to actually
test
it this morning...)
So long as it always takes less than 5 seconds to restart, this looks
like
it will work nicely...
thanks,
Greg
On Jul 24, 10:03 pm, Matthew Hyclak <hyc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Greg<greg.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > I have an NFS server on our network sharing out package files for
> > Puppet to install to all and sundry. The clients access said NFS
> > server via an automounter configuration (I don't want the packages
> > share mounted all the time, only when installing packages) As a
> > result, installation of packages depends on autofs... So I have the
> > following:
>
> > service { "autofs": ensure => running", subscribe => File["/etc/
> > auto_master"] }
>
> > package { "SUNWfoo":
> > # Yes, I'm using /net - its evil, I know...
> > source => "/net/$installsvr/export/pkgs/$kernelrelease/$hardwareisa/
> > SUNWfoo.pkg",
> > require => Service["autofs"]
> > }
>
> > I'm serving it out this way for a number of reasons, including slow
> > Puppet fileserving for large files, inability to specify response
> > files with http package streams onSolaris' package management system
> > - and so on...
>
> > The problem I have is that if the autofs service is restarted right
> > before a package is installed (which typically happens when I do a
> > jumpstart as I put in a new /etc/auto_master) then the service is
> > still restarting whilst the subsequent resources are being configured.
> > So the package installs fail because they can't see the files.
>
> > 5 seconds later the automounter comes online and the files are
> > available...
>
> > Basically the problem here is that the command used to restart the
> > service doesn't wait for the service to actually restart - it just
> > triggers the SMF services to restart it. I can't see any options in
> > svcadm to restart and wait for it to be online again - which is a
> > little annoying. And I think Puppet makes the assumption that because
> > it told the service to restart that it has actually done that...
>
> > If I take the requirement for autofs out from the packages - nothing
> > installs as it tries to install packages too early and the system
> > isn't configured enough to retrieve them...
>
> > Has anyone else seen this condition happen? If so, what did you do to
> > work around (or preferably fix) the problem?
>
> You can specify the restart command for a service, so I would just use
> your own for autofs that includes a "&& sleep 5" after the regular
> restart command.
>
> Matt
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