On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 11:06:07AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 08:19:31PM -0400, The Anarcat wrote: > > The fix is simple, and should be part of the postinst (or simply in > > debian/rules): > > > > mkdir /var/run/puppet > > chown puppet:puppet !$ > > This fix won't work, because /var/run is often a tmpfs, so /var/run/puppet > will get lunched on reboot. The fix will actually have to be in the > initscripts.
Didn't think of that, good thinking.
> Gah, I despise PID files. And programs that assume things about their
> placement and permissions.
Well, pidfiles do have a function, how else do you deal with process
managemnet?
> > puppet.conf should also point to /var/run/puppet instead of /var/run as
> > a rundir.
>
> I think I'll just go the whole hog and patch the source for that,
> considering that the rundir will be hardcoded in the init script anyway.
patch the source? you just need to patch puppet.conf, no?
> It's strange that I made the original rundir permissions change several
> weeks ago and you're the first person to hit it. Oh well. I'll whip up a
> fix and get it out shortly.
Eh.. I'm probably the only person that got through the trouble of filing
the bug...
Thanks!
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