On 14.5.2012 14:53, jcbollinger wrote:
> On May 12, 11:09 am, Markus Falb <markus.f...@fasel.at> wrote:
>> I have a class irqbalance with a service defined and it does not work as
>> expected and thats why I am asking for advice.
>>
>> service { 'irqbalance':
>> ensure => running,
>> enable => true,
>> require => Package['irqbalance'],
>>
>> }
>>
>> $ puppetd --test
>> does start the service (expected)
>>
>> $ puppetd --test --tags irqbalance
>> *does not* start the service (unexpected)
>> why is this?
>
>
> Prior to Puppet 2.7, if a Service resource does not have "hasstatus =>
> true" then Puppet will check its status by looking for its name in the
> process table. (In Puppet 2.7 the default for this parameter changed,
> so you need to explicitly set hasstatus => false to get the table
> lookup behavior.)
>
> I speculate that you are running something older than 2.7 (so probably
> 2.6.x), and that when Puppet scans the process table to check whether
> irqbalance is running, it matches on your Puppet command line "puppetd
> --test --tags irqbalance".
Uh. I read about that change but I was not clear about the consequences.
This would mean that looking in the process table is unreliable and now
I am thinking about setting a default
Service {
hasstatus => true
}
so I do not have to specify it for every service.
Thanks
--
Kind Regards, Markus Falb
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