Here’s a little snippet I use to remove multiarch / i386 support from Ubuntu with Puppet.
if versioncmp( $::lsbdistrelease, "12.04" ) > 0 {
exec { "remove-architecture i386":
command => "/usr/bin/dpkg --remove-architecture i386",
onlyif => "/usr/bin/dpkg --print-foreign-architectures | /bin/grep -q i386",
}
} else {
file { "/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch": ensure => absent, }
}Recently a client asked me to setup multiple instances of MongoDB on a Linux Ubuntu server. Ubuntu does not use standard /etc/init.d/ scripts, instead it uses upstart, an event-based replacement for the /sbin/init daemon, that handles starting of tasks and services during boot, stopping them during shutdown and supervising them while the system is running. Upstart uses it’s own limited syntax to describe a service or task. I tried launching several processes from a single upstart config, but upstart could not track the service properly. Instead, I broke-up the upstart script into two — one master to define the instances, and another to start each one independently.