On Friday, August 17, 2012 8:26:54 AM UTC-5, Axel Bock wrote: > > 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. > > Ubuntu (10.04 + 12.04) uses puppetd in it's upstart and related scripts as well IIRC.
> > 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/-/ViA41M7iULcJ. 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.