[OmniOS-discuss] Question on puppet agent for OmniOS

[Lauri Tirkkonen]

On Wed, Feb 17 2016 15:52:00 -0600, Paul Jochum wrote:
>     Thanks for responding.  I am new to puppet, and curious, why do you run
> it from cron, instead of in daemon mode?  Is it more secure, or is there
> something else I am missing?

It used to be that the agent was leaking memory in version 2.something
when we first started using it. 'puppet kick' also existed then, to
trigger an agent run from the master, but it doesn't anymore; we don't
think there's any reason to run the agent as a daemon.

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