Resource Type: service

(Namevar: If omitted, this attribute's value defaults to the resource's title.)

The name of the service to run.

This name is used to find the service; on platforms where services have short system names and long display names, this should be the short name. (To take an example from Windows, you would use "wuauserv" rather than "Automatic Updates.")

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(Property: This attribute represents concrete state on the target system.)

Whether a service should be running. Default values depend on the platform.

Allowed values:

• stopped

• running

• false

• true

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The path to the daemon. This is only used for systems that do not support init scripts. This binary will be used to start the service if no start parameter is provided.

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The control variable used to manage services (originally for HP-UX). Defaults to the upcased service name plus START replacing dots with underscores, for those providers that support the controllable feature.

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(Property: This attribute represents concrete state on the target system.)

Whether a service should be enabled to start at boot. This property behaves differently depending on the platform; wherever possible, it relies on local tools to enable or disable a given service. Default values depend on the platform.

If you don't specify a value for the enable attribute, Puppet leaves that aspect of the service alone and your operating system determines the behavior.

Allowed values:

• true

• false

• manual

• mask

• delayed

Requires features enableable.

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(Property: This attribute represents concrete state on the target system.)

Specify a string of flags to pass to the startup script.

Requires features flaggable.

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Specify that an init script has a restart command. If this is false and you do not specify a command in the restart attribute, the init script's stop and start commands will be used.

Allowed values:

• true

• false

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Declare whether the service's init script has a functional status command. This attribute's default value changed in Puppet 2.7.0.

The init script's status command must return 0 if the service is running and a nonzero value otherwise. Ideally, these exit codes should conform to the LSB's specification for init script status actions, but Puppet only considers the difference between 0 and nonzero to be relevant.

If a service's init script does not support any kind of status command, you should set hasstatus to false and either provide a specific command using the status attribute or expect that Puppet will look for the service name in the process table. Be aware that 'virtual' init scripts (like 'network' under Red Hat systems) will respond poorly to refresh events from other resources if you override the default behavior without providing a status command.

Default: true

Allowed values:

• true

• false

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(Property: This attribute represents concrete state on the target system.)

Specify an account for service logon

Requires features manages_logon_credentials.

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Specify a password for service logon. Default value is an empty string (when logonaccount is specified).

Requires features manages_logon_credentials.

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Specify a command to config a service, or a path to a manifest to do so.

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The search path for finding init scripts. Multiple values should be separated by colons or provided as an array.

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The pattern to search for in the process table. This is used for stopping services on platforms that do not support init scripts, and is also used for determining service status on those service whose init scripts do not include a status command.

Defaults to the name of the service. The pattern can be a simple string or any legal Ruby pattern, including regular expressions (which should be quoted without enclosing slashes).

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The specific backend to use for this service resource. You will seldom need to specify this --- Puppet will usually discover the appropriate provider for your platform.

Available providers are:

• base

• bsd

• daemontools

• debian

• freebsd

• gentoo

• init

• launchd

• openbsd

• openrc

• openwrt

• rcng

• redhat

• runit

• service

• smf

• src

• systemd

• upstart

• windows

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Specify a restart command manually. If left unspecified, the service will be stopped and then started.

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Specify a start command manually. Most service subsystems support a start command, so this will not need to be specified.

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Specify a status command manually. This command must return 0 if the service is running and a nonzero value otherwise. Ideally, these exit codes should conform to the LSB's specification for init script status actions, but Puppet only considers the difference between 0 and nonzero to be relevant.

If left unspecified, the status of the service will be determined automatically, usually by looking for the service in the process table.

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Specify a stop command manually.

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Specify an optional minimum timeout (in seconds) for puppet to wait when syncing service properties

Requires features configurable_timeout.

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The simplest form of Unix service support.

You have to specify enough about your service for this to work; the minimum you can specify is a binary for starting the process, and this same binary will be searched for in the process table to stop the service. As with init-style services, it is preferable to specify start, stop, and status commands.

• Required binaries: kill

Generic BSD form of init-style service management with rc.d.

Uses rc.conf.d for service enabling and disabling.

• Confined to: os.name == [:freebsd, :dragonfly]

Daemontools service management.

This provider manages daemons supervised by D.J. Bernstein daemontools. When detecting the service directory it will check, in order of preference:

• /service

• /etc/service

• /var/lib/svscan

The daemon directory should be in one of the following locations:

• /var/lib/service

• /etc

...or this can be overridden in the resource's attributes:

service { 'myservice':
  provider => 'daemontools',
  path     => '/path/to/daemons',
}

This provider supports out of the box:

• start/stop (mapped to enable/disable)

• enable/disable

• restart

• status

If a service has ensure => "running", it will link /path/to/daemon to /path/to/service, which will automatically enable the service.

If a service has ensure => "stopped", it will only shut down the service, not remove the /path/to/service link.

• Required binaries: /usr/bin/svc, /usr/bin/svstat

Debian's form of init-style management.

The only differences from init are support for enabling and disabling services via update-rc.d and the ability to determine enabled status via invoke-rc.d.

• Required binaries: /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d, /usr/sbin/service, /usr/sbin/update-rc.d

• Confined to: false == Puppet::FileSystem.exist?('/proc/1/comm') && Puppet::FileSystem.read('/proc/1/comm').include?('systemd')

• Default for: ["os.name", "cumuluslinux"] == ["os.release.major", "%w[1 2]"], ["os.name", "debian"] == ["os.release.major", "%w[5 6 7]"], ["os.name", "devuan"] ==

Provider for FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD. Uses the rcvar argument of init scripts and parses/edits rc files.

• Confined to: os.name == [:freebsd, :dragonfly]

• Default for: ["os.name", "[:freebsd, :dragonfly]"] ==

Gentoo's form of init-style service management.

Uses rc-update for service enabling and disabling.

• Required binaries: /sbin/rc-update

• Confined to: os.name == gentoo

Standard init-style service management.

• Confined to: false == Puppet.runtime[:facter].value('os.family') == 'RedHat'

This provider manages jobs with launchd, which is the default service framework for Mac OS X (and may be available for use on other platforms).

For more information, see the launchd man page:

• https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/launchd.8.html

This provider reads plists out of the following directories:

• /System/Library/LaunchDaemons

• /System/Library/LaunchAgents

• /Library/LaunchDaemons

• /Library/LaunchAgents

...and builds up a list of services based upon each plist's "Label" entry.

This provider supports:

• ensure => running/stopped,

• enable => true/false

• status

• restart

Here is how the Puppet states correspond to launchd states:

• stopped --- job unloaded

• started --- job loaded

• enabled --- 'Disable' removed from job plist file

• disabled --- 'Disable' added to job plist file

Note that this allows you to do something launchctl can't do, which is to be in a state of "stopped/enabled" or "running/disabled".

Note that this provider does not support overriding 'restart'

• Required binaries: /bin/launchctl

• Confined to: os.name == darwin, feature == cfpropertylist

• Default for: ["os.name", "darwin"] ==

• Supported features: enableable, refreshable

Provider for OpenBSD's rc.d daemon control scripts

• Required binaries: /usr/sbin/rcctl

• Confined to: os.name == openbsd

• Default for: ["os.name", "openbsd"] ==

• Supported features: flaggable

Support for Gentoo's OpenRC initskripts

Uses rc-update, rc-status and rc-service to manage services.

• Required binaries: /sbin/rc-service, /sbin/rc-update

• Default for: ["os.name", "gentoo"] == , ["os.name", "funtoo"] ==

Support for OpenWrt flavored init scripts.

Uses /etc/init.d/service_name enable, disable, and enabled.

• Confined to: os.name == openwrt

• Default for: ["os.name", "openwrt"] ==

• Supported features: enableable

RCng service management with rc.d

• Confined to: os.name == [:netbsd, :cargos]

• Default for: ["os.name", "[:netbsd, :cargos]"] ==

Red Hat's (and probably many others') form of init-style service management. Uses chkconfig for service enabling and disabling.

• Required binaries: /sbin/chkconfig, /sbin/service

• Default for: ["os.name", "amazon"] == ["os.release.major", "%w[2017 2018]"], ["os.name", "redhat"] == ["os.release.major", "(4..6).to_a"], ["os.family", "suse"] == ["os.release.major", "%w[10 11]"]

Runit service management.

This provider manages daemons running supervised by Runit. When detecting the service directory it will check, in order of preference:

• /service

• /etc/service

• /var/service

The daemon directory should be in one of the following locations:

• /etc/sv

• /var/lib/service

or this can be overridden in the service resource parameters:

service { 'myservice':
  provider => 'runit',
  path     => '/path/to/daemons',
}

This provider supports out of the box:

• start/stop

• enable/disable

• restart

• status

• Required binaries: /usr/bin/sv

The simplest form of service support.

Support for Sun's new Service Management Framework.

When managing the enable property, this provider will try to preserve the previous ensure state per the enableable semantics. On Solaris, enabling a service starts it up while disabling a service stops it. Thus, there's a chance for this provider to execute two operations when managing the enable property. For example, if enable is set to true and the ensure state is stopped, this provider will manage the service using two operations: one to enable the service which will start it up, and another to stop the service (without affecting its enabled status).

By specifying manifest => "/path/to/service.xml", the SMF manifest will be imported if it does not exist.

• Required binaries: /usr/bin/svcs, /usr/sbin/svcadm, /usr/sbin/svccfg

• Confined to: os.family == solaris

• Default for: ["os.family", "solaris"] ==

• Supported features: refreshable

Support for AIX's System Resource controller.

Services are started/stopped based on the stopsrc and startsrc commands, and some services can be refreshed with refresh command.

Enabling and disabling services is not supported, as it requires modifications to /etc/inittab. Starting and stopping groups of subsystems is not yet supported.

• Confined to: os.name == aix

• Default for: ["os.name", "aix"] ==

• Supported features: refreshable

Manages systemd services using systemctl.

Because systemd defaults to assuming the .service unit type, the suffix may be omitted. Other unit types (such as .path) may be managed by providing the proper suffix.

• Required binaries: systemctl

• Confined to: true == Puppet::FileSystem.exist?('/proc/1/comm') && Puppet::FileSystem.read('/proc/1/comm').include?('systemd')

• Default for: ["os.family", "[:archlinux]"] == , ["os.family", "redhat"] == , ["os.family", "redhat"] == ["os.name", "fedora"], ["os.family", "suse"] == , ["os.family", "coreos"] == , ["os.family", "gentoo"] == , ["os.name", "amazon"] == ["os.release.major", "%w[2 2023]"], ["os.name", "debian"] == , ["os.name", "LinuxMint"] == , ["os.name", "ubuntu"] == , ["os.name", "cumuluslinux"] == ["os.release.major", "%w[3 4]"], ["os.name", "raspbian"] == ["os.release.major", "%w[12]"]

Ubuntu service management with upstart.

This provider manages upstart jobs on Ubuntu. For upstart documentation, see http://upstart.ubuntu.com/.

• Required binaries: /sbin/initctl, /sbin/restart, /sbin/start, /sbin/status, /sbin/stop

• Confined to: any == [ Puppet.runtime[:facter].value('os.name') == 'Ubuntu', (Puppet.runtime[:facter].value('os.family') == 'RedHat' and Puppet.runtime[:facter].value('os.release.full') =~ /^6./), (Puppet.runtime[:facter].value('os.name') == 'Amazon' and Puppet.runtime[:facter].value('os.release.major') =~ /\d{4}/), Puppet.runtime[:facter].value('os.name') == 'LinuxMint' ], true == -> { has_initctl? }

• Default for: ["os.name", "ubuntu"] == ["os.release.major", "["10.04", "12.04", "14.04", "14.10"]"], ["os.name", "LinuxMint"] == ["os.release.major", "%w[10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17]"]

• Supported features: enableable

Support for Windows Service Control Manager (SCM). This provider can start, stop, enable, and disable services, and the SCM provides working status methods for all services.

Control of service groups (dependencies) is not yet supported, nor is running services as a specific user.

• Confined to: os.name == windows

• Default for: ["os.name", "windows"] ==

• Supported features: configurable_timeout, manages_logon_credentials, refreshable