[Mageia-sysadm] Using cron for puppet instead of the daemon

Buchan Milne bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net
Tue Jun 28 16:31:41 CEST 2011


On Tuesday, 28 June 2011 13:19:34 Michael Scherer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> after trying to fix the lockup problem of puppet ( sometimes, puppet
> suffer from a race condition ), and the mem leak on alamut ( likely
> caused by our usage of stored config, I guess ), I tred a alternative
> approach on my own servers, by replacing puppet client by cron.

You mean by replacing puppet client daemon by cron to run puppet?

> So far, t worked quite well, so I propose that we do the same.
> Any opinion ?

Please remember to adjust the process checks in xymon (e.g. thresholds to 0 1 
instead of 1 2).

Regards,
Buchan


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