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Reputation: 6120

Puppet : How to use service with schedule

I would like to schedule a service restart during a certain period (schedule).
I have attempted a number of variations but none have been successful. Hoping someone knows what I am doing wrong :

schedule { 'my_sched':
  range   => '11:00 - 11:20',
  period => daily,
  repeat => 1,
}

service { 'my_service':
  ensure    => 'running',
  enable    => true,
  schedule  => 'my_sched',
}

If I replace service with exec, it works fine.
If I replace schedule with a file dependency, it works as well.
But service does not work with schedule

Upvotes: 1

Views: 849

Answers (1)

Alex Harvey
Alex Harvey

Reputation: 15472

It is explained in the docs here that:

Currently, schedules can only be used to stop a resource from being applied; they cannot cause a resource to be applied when it otherwise wouldn’t be, and they cannot accurately specify a time when a resource should run.

And that's the problem ; the service will already be running in your schedule, so Puppet will see that it is running and find there is nothing to do.

Maybe just use cron? I would get Puppet to install a cron job that restarts the service instead.

Upvotes: 3

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