Puppet causes endless restarts of CUPS (how does one prevent this)
- by Purfideas
Hi! It makes sense, and is in fact suggested
on this site, to have a critical file change trigger a service restart with puppet meta-parameters (such as notify or subscribe). For example:
## file definition for printers.conf
file { "/etc/cups/printers.conf":
[snip],
source => "puppet:///module/etc/cups/printers.conf"
}
## service definition for sshd
service { 'cups':
ensure => running,
subscribe => File['/etc/cups/printers.conf']
}
But in the case of CUPS, this triggers and endless loop of restarts; the logic works like this:
Change puppetmaster's version of
/etc/cups/printers.conf
puppetmaster pushes new version to
client, triggering cups restart
cupsd restart insists on putting its own
time stamp at the top of
printers.conf, 'Written by cupsd...'
This change will be seen as out of
date, so after runinterval, we
return to (1).
Is there a way to suppress cupsd's need to time stamp the file? Or is there a puppet trick that could help here?
Thanks!
