Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet and RH "chkconfig"

Len Rugen
2013-09-12T00:13:48Z

Try ensure disabled,
On Sep 11, 2013 5:24 PM, "Forrie" <forrie@gmail.com> wrote:

> I''ve been trying to follow several threads around Google about
Puppet and
> it''s use (or non-use) of chkconfig on RH Linux.
>
> What prompted me to do this is I noticed that Puppet is, correctly,
> repeatedly logging that it is changing a services from ON to OFF.  Funny, I
> thought I had disabled that with:
>
>      service { "ip6tables":
>                 enable => false,
>                 ensure => stopped,
>      }
>
> Which certainly works, but it doesn''t disable the service (ie:
"chkconfig
> servicename off") -- it seems like there should be a provider that
> correctly integrates with the system "chkconfig" --  I realize
that not all
> init scripts honor that, and for that folks can do whatever.  This is a
> basic functionality of RH Linux that enables, adds, deletes and otherwise
> alters the levels of basic services.   Seems reasonable that Puppet could
> properly interact with it?
>
> We are up to Puppet 3.4.x now.   I''m simply asking here as I
didn''t seem
> to find a definitive answer - a lot of code snippets and suggestions, I
> just wonder if this is on-tap for improvement or if someone has another,
> perhaps clever approach to working with this?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
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