You are being very very vague and unclear with your terms. Reading between the
lines, I think these three things answer your questions:
"puppet apply" is used on local policy files and happens instantly.
"puppet agent" gets policy from a puppet server, and happens every
$runinterv
When I apply my class, it can take 5, 10 minutes to actually execute
and record in /var/log/messages.
For testing and turnaround, I need immediate.
I take it that the above is due to runinterval =
being needed to be added to the puppetmaster configuration.
But even smaller numbers like a fe