Puppet users - Jan 2012 - Multiple Service definitions of the same type

Hello,

I am trying to make it so that more than 1 instance of memcached can
run on a single service.  I have a special init.d script that can
handle this, but want to define the service multiple times in a puppet
class.  Here is the definition I am using:

       service { "$service_name":
            name => "memcached",
            ensure => running,
            enable => true,
            start => "$init_script start $service_name",
            stop => "$init_script stop $service_name",
            status => "$init_script status $service_name",
            restart => "$init_script restart $service_name",
            hasstatus => true,
            require => [Package[memcached],File["$file_name"]]
        }

I used the $service_name so that the defintion would be unique, but
now puppet is throwing this error:

Puppet::Parser::AST::Resource failed with error ArgumentError: Cannot
alias Service[11411] to ["memcached"]; resource ["Service",
["memcached"]] already exists at


How can I achieve what I am trying to achieve?  Any ideas?

Thanks,

Bryan

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I think if you remove this line, name => "memcached", you should be
fine as long as $service_name is unique per instance.

Ramin

On Jan 24, 2:50 pm, Bryan Beaudreault <bbeaudrea...@hubspot.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to make it so that more than 1 instance of memcached can
> run on a single service.  I have a special init.d script that can
> handle this, but want to define the service multiple times in a puppet
> class.  Here is the definition I am using:
>
>        service { "$service_name":
>             name => "memcached",
>             ensure => running,
>             enable => true,
>             start => "$init_script start $service_name",
>             stop => "$init_script stop $service_name",
>             status => "$init_script status $service_name",
>             restart => "$init_script restart $service_name",
>             hasstatus => true,
>             require => [Package[memcached],File["$file_name"]]
>         }
>
> I used the $service_name so that the defintion would be unique, but
> now puppet is throwing this error:
>
> Puppet::Parser::AST::Resource failed with error ArgumentError: Cannot
> alias Service[11411] to ["memcached"]; resource
["Service",
> ["memcached"]] already exists at
>
> How can I achieve what I am trying to achieve?  Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bryan
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Hi,

On 01/24/2012 11:50 PM, Bryan Beaudreault wrote:
> I have a special init.d script that can
> handle this, but want to define the service multiple times in a puppet
> class.
I assume your new initscript declares a different Provides: tag than the
stock memcached initscript, yes?

Whatever this tag is, that''s what your service resource should be
named,
and (as Ramin pointed out correctly), you should not try and alias this
service to "memcached" (even though that''s what
you''re ultimately starting).

If your new script does indeed provide "memcached" as well, that is a
problem in and of itself and needs fixing.

HTH,
Felix

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