Puppet is now at version 0.20.1-1 Reading this bug report and the debian/changelog it seems the init script was overhauled in the last upload (0.20.1-1) however it still doe not work!
I do not use puppet but have installed puppetmaster on a "clean" machine and touched /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp so that puppetmasterd starts! I can now start the daemon with sudo /etc/init.d/puppetmaster start and a pid file is created.... BUT the pid file is EMPTY! # ls -l /var/run/puppetmasterd.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 puppet puppet 0 2007-01-06 17:08 /var/run/puppetmasterd.pid So it is no wonder that the daemon is not stopped! Further test show that by running /usr/sbin/puppetmasterd the pid file is created (but empty) and that killing the process removes the pid file. I think the bug lies in the ruby code which creates an EMPTY pid file... it should put the pid in it! I do not read or write ruby... but I think the problem lies in function setpidfile in the file puppet-0.20.1/lib/puppet/daemon.rb The code looks like: --- def setpidfile return unless Puppet[:setpidfile] threadlock(:pidfile) do Puppet.config.use(:puppet) @pidfile = self.pidfile if FileTest.exists?(@pidfile) if defined? $setpidfile return else raise Puppet::Error, "A PID file already exists for #{Puppet.name} at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not starting." end end Puppet.info "Creating PID file to %s" % @pidfile begin File.open(@pidfile, "w") { |f| f.puts $$ } rescue => detail Puppet.err "Could not create PID file: %s" % detail exit(74) end $setpidfile = true end end --- BUT I don't see the file being closed or sync'd to disk. My suspision is that ruby needs another command/method to be called to commit this write to disk. Any ruby experts out there want to comment? Regards Alex Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]