I believe your issue is that your grep command will ALWAYS return 0 since it will see it's one process in the process list. You must add a second grep to ignore it. Try the following:
unless => "/bin/ps -aux |/usr/bin/grep '/data/service' | grep -v grep" -John -- 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.