Puppet users - Aug 2011 - Service resource does disable services on reboots

Hi folks,

The question I have is regarding to Service resource on Red Hat systems. I
have the following example:

service { [ "anacron", "atd" ]:
       ensure => stopped,
        enable => false,
        hasrestart => true,
        hasstatus => true,
  }

It runs fine, disabling the service while the system is up. Debugging it, I
noticed that it run the following:
debug: Service[atd](provider=redhat): Executing ''/sbin/service atd
status''
debug: Puppet::Type::Service::
ProviderRedhat: Executing ''/sbin/chkconfig atd''

The idea is to disable it completely, so it does not come back in the next
reboot. By running ''/sbin/chkconfig atd'', that does not
happen. So, the
correct command, I think, would be ''/sbin/chkconfig atd off''.

Is there any way to accomplish this?

thanks,
-fred

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On Aug 26, 1:26 pm, Frederiko Costa <freder...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> The question I have is regarding to Service resource on Red Hat systems. I
> have the following example:
>
> service { [ "anacron", "atd" ]:
>        ensure => stopped,
>         enable => false,
>         hasrestart => true,
>         hasstatus => true,
>   }
>
> It runs fine, disabling the service while the system is up. Debugging it, I
> noticed that it run the following:
> debug: Service[atd](provider=redhat): Executing ''/sbin/service atd
status''
> debug: Puppet::Type::Service::
> ProviderRedhat: Executing ''/sbin/chkconfig atd''
>
> The idea is to disable it completely, so it does not come back in the next
> reboot. By running ''/sbin/chkconfig atd'', that does not
happen. So, the
> correct command, I think, would be ''/sbin/chkconfig atd
off''.
>
> Is there any way to accomplish this?

Are you sure it''s broken?  I strongly suspect that the Puppet agent
runs "/sbin/chkconfig atd" as part of determining the current state of
Service[''atd''], not in an attempt to modify that state.  In
particular, it is determining whether the service is currently
enabled.  If the resource is already in the desired state then Puppet
will not modify it (so you will not see ''/sbin/chkconfig atd
off'' in
that case).


John

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