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

[nicolas vigier]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, 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.
> 
> So far, t worked quite well, so I propose that we do the same. 
> Any opinion ?

Yes, I think we can do this.

I don't know if the puppet client is doing anything more than cron.