Well, changing a runlevel just to stop a daemon is a bit heavy handed. There are other tools that perform this in a more flexible manner: Runit, Daemontools, Monit, Supervisord, etc.
-scott On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:33 PM, vagn scott <vagnsc...@gmail.com> wrote: > In my reading I just ran across this: > > [Puppet - Bug #7273] Modifying puppet.conf causes 'reparsing config' > and TERM signal results in shutdown of daemon > > short version: puppet agent can commit suicide, but it can't raise itself > from the dead. > > However, init is immortal, and so puppetd can be, too. > > > # on debian squeeze as root: > insserv -r puppet > echo "7:2:respawn:/usr/sbin/puppetd --no-daemonize" >> /etc/inittab > init Q > > If you don't want puppet running > > init 3 > > or some other run level. puppetd will stop. > When you > > init 2 > > puppetd will start again. > > When you > > killall puppetd > > puppetd will do this: > > Jun 30 01:28:20 vm01 puppet-agent[7548]: Caught TERM; calling stop > Jun 30 01:28:21 vm01 puppet-agent[8157]: Starting Puppet client > version 2.6.2 > Jun 30 01:28:22 vm01 puppet-agent[8157]: Finished catalog run in > 0.11 seconds > > I'm not seeing a downside to this. Am I missing something? > > -- > vagn > > -- > 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+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/puppet-users?hl=en<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.
