Re: [Puppet Users] Running puppet agent and master from cron jobs

2011-12-04 Thread Gabriel Filion
On 11-12-04 11:53 AM, Christopher Wood wrote: >> 1. Run `puppet agent --onetime` every 30 minutes on agents > Definitely use fdqn_rand (see the function list) in the cron job minutes to > spread these out. yep, we use a bash-version of this random time thing. You'll quickly notice that you need t

Re: [Puppet Users] Running puppet agent and master from cron jobs

2011-12-04 Thread Christopher Wood
On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 07:51:28AM -0800, bel wrote: > I see that there's a thread from September asking a very similar > question ("Official puppetlabs position on cron vs puppet as a > service?"). I want to ask what should I take into account when making > this decision? > > Just some background

[Puppet Users] Running puppet agent and master from cron jobs

2011-12-04 Thread bel
I see that there's a thread from September asking a very similar question ("Official puppetlabs position on cron vs puppet as a service?"). I want to ask what should I take into account when making this decision? Just some background: - All my servers are Red Hat or CentOS - We have about 5 serve