I have a service that just wont restart.

[Joehillen]

For my nagios::nrpe class, I have the following service:

        service {"nagios-nrpe-server":

            ensure => running,

            enable => true,

            require => Package["nagios-nrpe-server"],

            hasrestart => true,

            restart => "/etc/init.d/nagios-nrpe-server restart",

            subscribe => File["/etc/nagios/nrpe.d/"],

        }

In all of the nrpe config file entries, I have:

        notify => Service["nagios-nrpe-server"]

It even says that it restarted the service:

info: /Stage[main]//Node[alpha.xxxxxxxx.net]/Nagios::Nrpe::Check_mem[alpha.xxxxxxxx.net]/Nagios::Nrpe::Check[mem]/File[/etc/nagios/nrpe.d/check_mem.cfg]: Scheduling refresh of Service[nagios-nrpe-server]

notice: /Stage[main]/Nagios::Nrpe/Service[nagios-nrpe-server]/ensure: ensure changed 'stopped' to 'running'

notice: /Stage[main]/Nagios::Nrpe/Service[nagios-nrpe-server]: Triggered 'refresh' from 1 events

However, it wont actually restart the service, and I have to do it manually:

    sudo /etc/init.d/nagios-nrpe-server restart

After that, it works perfectly.

I am running Puppet 2.6.2 on Debian Lenny

[Ken Barber]

> notice: /Stage[main]/Nagios::Nrpe/Service[nagios-nrpe-server]/ensure: ensure
> changed 'stopped' to 'running'

That looks like its trying to start it, not restart it. Do you get
this message each time you do a puppet run (even when nothing has
changed)? If so - you might need a valid 'status' command and use
hasstatus => true. It probably thinks its not started perhaps.

Puppet falls back to looking in the process table when you don't
specify hasstatus => true to determine service status - and it uses
the name of the service (in this case nagios-nrpe-server) to do the
search.

ken.

[Joehillen]

Yes, it says it every time. The actual process is called "nrpe", so that makes sense that it can't find it. 

Unfortunately, it doesn't have a status command. What should I do instead?

[Ken Barber]

Use the pattern attribute, documented here:

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/type.html#service

ken.

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[Joehillen]

Awesome! Adding `pattern => "nrpe"` solved the issue. 

Thanks for your help.