Re: [Puppet Users] Refreshing puppetd from within puppetd

Patrick Mohr
Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:18:02 -0000

On Jun 22, 2010, at 2:43 AM, David Schmitt wrote:

> On 6/22/2010 3:03 AM, Patrick Mohr wrote:
>> I push out changes to puppet.conf using puppet.  (I have gsh as a
>> backup for if I really screw things up, but I''ve never had to
use it
>> yet.)  Is there any safe and/or good way to restart puppet after a
>> change is made o it''s config?  I''m assuming that just
defining puppet
>> as a service and subscribing to puppet.conf is bad because it will
>> stop puppet in the middle of a run which might make other subscribes
>> not work.
>
> Puppetd does reload its configuration automatically when the config file
changes. Any settings that do not get reloaded should be considered bugs and
reported to the bug tracker.
>

It seemed to me that adding report=true to [puppetd] using augeas
didn''t cause puppetd to start sending reports each run.  I''ll
check to see that''s actually true later today.
-Patrick Mohr