-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hmm...perhaps both modes could be supported.
Have one way to schedule and another to run inline. That would be quite useful. Trevor On 04/08/2010 01:45 PM, Thomas Bellman wrote: > Dan Bode wrote: > >> I would prefer if puppet ran the sync. It would be nice to receive >> puppet events for any changes made via rsync (essentially reports of >> which files change, this would require that it is implemented in ruby). >> >> I can see from reading the man page that there is a --dryrun call that >> could be used to determine rather rsync should be run or not. Is this >> reasonable to run this to determine if Puppet should run? or is that >> too slow? > > Problem is, once you get file trees that have several tens of thousands > of files in them, just traversing the tree to see which files are there > and ought to be transfered can take a while. When the target tree is > already up to date, rsync --dry-run doesn't go any faster than without > --dry-run. > > The time taken doesn't matter much when Puppet is doing its automatic, > unattended runs, but when you have made a change to your manifests and > want to make a manual test run from an interactive shell, you don't want > to wait an extra ten or fifty seconds just to see that you misspelled a > package name... > > > /Bellman > - -- Trevor Vaughan Vice President, Onyx Point, Inc. email: tvaug...@onyxpoint.com phone: 410-541-ONYX (6699) pgp: 0x6C701E94 - -- This account not approved for unencrypted sensitive information -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAku+dQMACgkQyWMIJmxwHpRULQCeMWxZcFB2/EwM+m+LxLGwULSl LVkAoLTU8x1F9YNKf+bz6uS0BgOWhCGx =RB47 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@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.
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