Hi Sanjiv,
This *should* not happen. Puppet will not restart a service if it's
already running properly. I'm going to guess that the problem is
Puppet does not KNOW that Tomcat is running properly and so thinks it
needs to restart Tomcat every run.
Does your Tomcat LSB/init script (/etc/init.d/tomcat or wherever it is
on your distro) support the status command correctly?
If it does, it should return zero if the tomcat service is running. If
this is the case you can add "hasstatus => true" to your
Service[Tomcat] declaration like so:
service { "tomcat":
ensure => running,
hasstatus => true,
}
Puppet will execute the 'status check' and use it's return value to
determine if the service is running (zero is running). For example,
here is mysqld's script:
# /etc/init.d/mysqld status
mysqld (pid xxxxx) is running...
# echo $?
0
#
The script returns zero as you can see, and Puppet does not restart
this service every time it runs.
According to the documentation (http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/
latest/type.html#service), if you don't specify hasstatus then Puppet
will try determine the status of the service on it's own, usually by
checking the process table, so if your tomcat service does not run as
a process name of 'tomcat' this might cause problems.
One last way is to manually specify a "status => cmd" and write your
own check to determine if tomcat is running or not, but "hasstatus" is
the way most people would go I think.
-Luke
On Nov 12, 11:10 am, "sanjiv.singh" <sanjiv.si...@impetus.co.in>
wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i m tring to use Service resource type as following...
>
> service { 'tomcat':
> ensure => running,
>
> }
>
> as I know , It will first stop tomcat , then start tomcat......
>
> but my requirement is like that i do not want to restart it ..
>
> , i want that if tomcat is allready running , then there is no need to
> do anything.....
> and if stoped then , start it....
>
> Can anybody tell how can I get this functionality ?
>
> Guide me if I had any missconception.......
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