On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Hugo Deprez <hugo.dep...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you I'll try that then.
>
> Yes I want puppet to use status command otherwise it will do something
> like ps -ef | grep $service_name
> As this is iptables I'll have no match.
>

You can also use the pattern parameter to specific a specific process table
search parameter, however writing your own status command would be
recommended.


>
> Regards
>
>
> On 1 February 2012 17:16, Gary Larizza <g...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Hugo Deprez <hugo.dep...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Dear community,
>>>
>>> I use puppet to deploy iptables on every server.
>>> This is working fine.
>>>
>>> In the manifest I defined an iptables service which leads to my init
>>> script.
>>> The thing is each time I run puppet I got : notice:
>>> /Stage[main]/Iptables/Service[netfilter]/ensure: ensure changed 'stopped'
>>> to 'running'
>>>
>>> I would like to add a status command to my startup script in order to
>>> reduce the number of iptables restart.
>>>
>>> I wasn't able to find out what return code puppet was waiting for a
>>> running service ?
>>>
>>> If iptables is running does the script should return 0 ?
>>> If not running it should return 1 ?
>>>
>>
>> This is correct.  Zero and non-zero are what we're looking for here on
>> your status script.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Then I'll add hasstatus => true, to my service.
>>>
>>
>> This is only needed if you're using the INIT script to check the status.
>>  Setting hasstatus => true tells puppet to look for an init script and use
>> the status command in the init script.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Hugo
>>>
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