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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/pSdVJ84OWLcJ. 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.