With a very basic declaration for MySQL Server: class { '::mysql::server': root_password => 'foobar', override_options => { 'mysqld' => { 'max_connections' => '150' } } } I am receiving a number of errors on puppet provisioning: Error: Could not start Service[mysqld]: Execution of '/sbin/service mysqld start' returned 1: mysqld: unrecognized service I am out of ideas and suggestions very welcome! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/c79d2c1b-17f7-4a2b-94d0-01c46b101554%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.