On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 5:34 PM, James Louis <jgloui...@gmail.com> wrote: > so the actual changes take place, if any, during a test vs a noop which does > not let the actual changes take place. So this would be used primarily for > configuration testing? Or perhaps for troubleshooting? Or both?
Yes, both. Due to it being quick to type, it's become the defacto method for interactively triggering puppet agent runs. puppet agent -t Maybe the right answer is to identify the chunks of functionality people use it for, and add those as new options, deprecating --test itself. > > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 4:53 PM, James Louis <jgloui...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > exactly. to what purpose? >> >> To trigger an immediate run on a client with the common options used >> when testing a real run, not a noop run. >> >> If there was a clear word that described this functionality, we >> probably wouldn't be having this discussion. >> >> >> >> > >> > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Patrick <kc7...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Jan 23, 2011, at 4:47 PM, James Louis wrote: >> >> >> >> > that tells what options are applied when --test is used but doesn't >> >> > explain the functionality of --test (i.e. --test is an option to >> >> > enable the >> >> > puppet agent to test it's connection to the puppet master by turning >> >> > on the >> >> > following options... blah blah blah) >> >> >> >> Ah. Basically, test doesn't do anything except turn on all those >> >> options. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> 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. >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that >> > you >> > didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail >> > away >> > from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. >> > Dream. >> > Discover.” >> > – Mark Twain >> > >> > -- >> > 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. >> > >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > > -- > “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you > didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away > from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. > Discover.” > – Mark Twain > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
