Re: [Puppet Users] how to fork a Windows exe

2014-05-30 Thread Brian Mathis
AFAIK, Windows does not have a true "fork" capability. Here are some ideas that might help: - Use srvany (or something else) to define a custom service. It sounds like this is probably what you really should be doing anyway. Puppet is not meant to control programs over a long term (i.e. service

[Puppet Users] how to fork a Windows exe

2014-05-30 Thread Bill N
Hi, Just wrote my first puppet module for Windows provisioning. All is working well except I am having a problem running a windows exe file in that Puppet appears to wait for the exe to complete. At least this is the case when I run Puppet agent --test from the Windows Server command line. Wh