Puppet users - May 2009 - running and configuring puppetd as a daemon at a set time

Hello All

I gather that the number of times the daemon checks in is controlled
via runinterval (default 1800 seconds)
Further, splay (and splaylimit) sets if a pseudo random time is used
before checking in.

BUT does splay have any meaning if i can not set when the daemon
should attempt to check in? Or can i set the check-in time (i may have
just missed the option)?

cheers
chakkerz
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If you want it to run at a specific time, you could use cron to do a
''puppetd --onetime'' if you want to get it to run at a specific
time...

Though that doesn''t let you use puppetrun to push out updates at
other times, as the daemon isn''t running.

On May 18, 10:33 am, chakkerz <chakk...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello All
>
> I gather that the number of times the daemon checks in is controlled
> via runinterval (default 1800 seconds)
> Further, splay (and splaylimit) sets if a pseudo random time is used
> before checking in.
>
> BUT does splay have any meaning if i can not set when the daemon
> should attempt to check in? Or can i set the check-in time (i may have
> just missed the option)?
>
> cheers
> chakkerz
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Yeah ... that''s what i thought. Thanks though :)
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Just thinking about it a bit more... You could control that cron job
from puppet,
that would give you the ability to change it as you require..
Something like:

cron { puppetd:
    command => "/usr/local/bin/puppetd --onetime",
    user => root,
    hour => 2,
    minute => 0
}

Obviously this still doesn''t allow you to do ad-hoc runs as you would
have to
wait for the next scheduled run to update the crontab, but it does
allow you
to control the schedule on a more globally...

On May 21, 12:16 pm, chakkerz <chakk...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Yeah ... that''s what i thought. Thanks though :)
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you can always use the mini-daemon puppetlisten-
http://github.com/ohadlevy/puppet/tree/266e9108c268daf0b2e319bc202d51101b6f594f/ext/puppetlisten

Cheers,
Ohad

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Greg <greg.boug@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just thinking about it a bit more... You could control that cron job
> from puppet,
> that would give you the ability to change it as you require..
> Something like:
>
> cron { puppetd:
>    command => "/usr/local/bin/puppetd --onetime",
>    user => root,
>    hour => 2,
>    minute => 0
> }
>
> Obviously this still doesn''t allow you to do ad-hoc runs as you
would
> have to
> wait for the next scheduled run to update the crontab, but it does
> allow you
> to control the schedule on a more globally...
>
> On May 21, 12:16 pm, chakkerz <chakk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yeah ... that''s what i thought. Thanks though :)
> >
>
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