Puppet

I wrote the following puppet service description, running on Ubuntu 11.04:

class mysql::service{ service{‘mysql’:

ensure     => running,
enable     => true,
hasrestart => true,
hasstatus  => true,
require    => Class['mysql::install'],

} }

Everytime I apply the manifest, the service is reenabled: puppet doesn’t notice MySQL is already running. I’ve attached as much information as I could to help debug this. The “new” way to detect if a service is running is through “/usr/bin/service SERVICE_NAME status”.

I changed my service description to use a status parameter, which should prevent starting the service every time puppet runs.