`<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">I should add, I'd use the niksula package over CSW if you can. I really appreciate their repo (and OmniOS).</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">We only use the CSW package because at the time the available version happened to line up with what we were running everywhere else. As a general rule, the agents shouldn't be an earlier version than your masters. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Now niksula has 3.8.5 which I might actually be able to change to. Using CSW packages intended for a diverging closed source Solaris is obviously gonna bite me sooner or later.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">As far as the manifest/method, if you run the daemon you can have puppet install them on the first run, and puppet's standard service resource has a "manifest" parameter that will "svccfg import" for you.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">But Lauri is right that there's no real reason to run the daemon vice from cron except to standardize with the rest of your org.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"> -- Trey</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Lauri Tirkkonen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lotheac@iki.fi" target="_blank">lotheac@iki.fi</a>></span> wrote:<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On Wed, Feb 17 2016 15:52:00 -0600, Paul Jochum wrote:<br>
> Thanks for responding. I am new to puppet, and curious, why do you run<br>
> it from cron, instead of in daemon mode? Is it more secure, or is there<br>
> something else I am missing?<br>
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</span>It used to be that the agent was leaking memory in version 2.something<br>
when we first started using it. 'puppet kick' also existed then, to<br>
trigger an agent run from the master, but it doesn't anymore; we don't<br>
think there's any reason to run the agent as a daemon.<br>
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Lauri Tirkkonen | lotheac @ IRCnet<br>
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