Puppet users - Jun 2011 - making puppetd immortal

In my reading I just ran across this:

         [Puppet - Bug #7273] Modifying puppet.conf causes ''reparsing 
config''
         and TERM signal results in shutdown of daemon

short version: puppet agent can commit suicide, but it can''t raise 
itself from the dead.

However, init is immortal, and so puppetd can be, too.


         # on debian squeeze as root:
         insserv -r puppet
         echo "7:2:respawn:/usr/sbin/puppetd --no-daemonize" >>
/etc/inittab
         init Q

If you don''t want puppet running

         init 3

or some other run level.  puppetd will stop.
When you

         init 2

puppetd will start again.

When you

         killall puppetd

puppetd will do this:

         Jun 30 01:28:20 vm01 puppet-agent[7548]: Caught TERM; calling stop
         Jun 30 01:28:21 vm01 puppet-agent[8157]: Starting Puppet client 
version 2.6.2
         Jun 30 01:28:22 vm01 puppet-agent[8157]: Finished catalog run 
in 0.11 seconds

I''m not seeing a downside to this.  Am I missing something?

--
vagn

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Well, changing a runlevel just to stop a daemon is a bit heavy handed.

There are other tools that perform this in a more flexible manner: Runit,
Daemontools, Monit, Supervisord, etc.

-scott

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:33 PM, vagn scott <vagnscott@gmail.com> wrote:
> In my reading I just ran across this:
>
>        [Puppet - Bug #7273] Modifying puppet.conf causes
''reparsing config''
>        and TERM signal results in shutdown of daemon
>
> short version: puppet agent can commit suicide, but it can''t raise
itself
> from the dead.
>
> However, init is immortal, and so puppetd can be, too.
>
>
>        # on debian squeeze as root:
>        insserv -r puppet
>        echo "7:2:respawn:/usr/sbin/puppetd --no-daemonize"
>> /etc/inittab
>        init Q
>
> If you don''t want puppet running
>
>        init 3
>
> or some other run level.  puppetd will stop.
> When you
>
>        init 2
>
> puppetd will start again.
>
> When you
>
>        killall puppetd
>
> puppetd will do this:
>
>        Jun 30 01:28:20 vm01 puppet-agent[7548]: Caught TERM; calling stop
>        Jun 30 01:28:21 vm01 puppet-agent[8157]: Starting Puppet client
> version 2.6.2
>        Jun 30 01:28:22 vm01 puppet-agent[8157]: Finished catalog run in
> 0.11 seconds
>
> I''m not seeing a downside to this.  Am I missing something?
>
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> vagn
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