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

Michael Scherer misc at zarb.org
Tue Jun 28 17:05:29 CEST 2011


Le mardi 28 juin 2011 à 16:31 +0200, Buchan Milne a écrit :
> 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?

Yes.

> > 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).

I am not sure if we should not go to 0 2, but I will check. 



-- 
Michael Scherer



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