Hi Forrie,
       Puppet service resource *enable* property internally executes the 
chkconfig command for red hat, This property behaves quite differently 
depending on the platform; wherever possible, it relies on local tools to 
enable or disable a given service.You can confirm the facter *osfamily *returns 
*redhat *or not. Use provider => redhat along with enable property.  Thanks 
and Regards,
Rahul Khengare,
NTT DATA OSS Center, Pune, India.


On Thursday, September 12, 2013 3:54:51 AM UTC+5:30, Forrie wrote:
>
> I've been trying to follow several threads around Google about Puppet and 
> it's use (or non-use) of chkconfig on RH Linux.
>
> What prompted me to do this is I noticed that Puppet is, correctly, 
> repeatedly logging that it is changing a services from ON to OFF.  Funny, I 
> thought I had disabled that with:
>
>      service { "ip6tables":
>                 enable => false,
>                 ensure => stopped,
>      }
>
> Which certainly works, but it doesn't disable the service (ie: "chkconfig 
> servicename off") -- it seems like there should be a provider that 
> correctly integrates with the system "chkconfig" --  I realize that not all 
> init scripts honor that, and for that folks can do whatever.  This is a 
> basic functionality of RH Linux that enables, adds, deletes and otherwise 
> alters the levels of basic services.   Seems reasonable that Puppet could 
> properly interact with it?
>
> We are up to Puppet 3.4.x now.   I'm simply asking here as I didn't seem 
> to find a definitive answer - a lot of code snippets and suggestions, I 
> just wonder if this is on-tap for improvement or if someone has another, 
> perhaps clever approach to working with this?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>

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