Package: puppet Version: 0.23.2-13 Severity: wishlist Here's a patch that will add a reload option to puppet (that does reread its config and do a configuration run on SIGHUP):
--- puppet.orig 2007-10-30 00:10:13.000000000 -0400 +++ puppet 2007-11-20 02:18:36.000000000 -0500 @@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /var/run/puppet/$NAME.pid } +reload_puppet() { + start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --signal HUP --pidfile /var/run/puppet/$NAME.pid +} + if [ ! -d /var/run/puppet ]; then rm -rf /var/run/puppet mkdir -p /var/run/puppet @@ -39,6 +43,12 @@ stop_puppet log_end_msg 0 ;; + reload) + log_begin_msg "Reloading $DESC" + reload_puppet + log_end_msg 0 + ;; + restart|force-reload) log_begin_msg "Restarting $DESC" stop_puppet Maybe a force-reload would be more appropriate here (since puppet reloads the files by itself anyways...) Note that this does not apply to puppetmaster. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (1, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-686 Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages puppet depends on: ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups ii facter 1.3.5-1 a library for retrieving facts fro ii libopenssl-ruby 1.0.0+ruby1.8.2-1 OpenSSL interface for Ruby ii libshadow-ruby1.8 1.4.1-7 Interface of shadow password for R ii libxmlrpc-ruby 1.8.2-1 XML-RPC support for Ruby ii lsb-base 3.1-23.2etch1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii ruby 1.8.2-1 An interpreter of object-oriented Versions of packages puppet recommends: ii rdoc 1.8.2-1 Generate documentation from ruby s -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]