Re: [Puppet Users] running puppet agent manually under debian

Patrick
Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:56:46 -0000

On Apr 8, 2011, at 10:34 AM, rektide wrote:
> in debian, assuming the user has installed the puppet package and thus
> has a puppet agent running, what steps should one take to manually run
> puppet agent (that is, to have puppet run)?  certainly there must be a
> non-full-of-shit option that doesnt entail stopping the daemon,
> manually running, then restarting the agent?

Nigel sent you an option to tell the currently running daemon to trigger a new
run right now.  You can also manually run puppet in a way that will give you
more immediate feedback like this:

puppetd -- verbose -- no-daemonize --onetime

This will run another puppet process, which will terminate when the run is over.
The original process will do nothing, and continue to run, unchanged by this
command.