Hi Paul, 

thanks for the answer. I'm on SLES 11 SP2, and the RPM says "
puppet-2.6.17-0.3.1".
so, no, it should be reasonably new (even if too old for my personal taste 
;)

SuSE uses puppetd in the /etc/init.d script it seems.


Greetings, 
Axel.


Am Freitag, 17. August 2012 12:05:05 UTC+2 schrieb Axel Bock:
>
> Hello readers, 
>
> I am wondering - what's the difference between executing "puppet agent" 
> and "puppetd"? I am on SLES 11 SP2, and both commands want to use the 
> /var/run/puppet/agent.pid lock file, both pull the configurations from the 
> server, but they seem to be mutually exlusive. When I run "sudo puppet 
> agent", the /etc/init.d/puppet status" will say "unused", for examle. Also 
> the process is different - one is /usr/sbin/puppetd, the other is 
> /usr/bin/puppet. 
>
> Yet they do - AFAIK - the same. 
>
> Can somebody help me out here? Which one should I actually use for 
> clients? 
>
>
> Thanks & greetings, 
> Axel.
>

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