Hello Chris, For me it was just the path to the pid file from puppet's init script. If I was you, I'd check the location of the lock file, and the executable as well. Otherwise, you should try Jeff's suggestion. Hope it helps.
Cheers, Henry On Sep 24, 3:32 am, Christian <berwangerchrist...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Henry, > > what was exactly wrong with your PID file? It seems i have a very > similar problem with the init.d puppetd stop start service. I checked > the PIDFILE path and the file was written correctly there. Also a > process id is written in that file. > > Christian > > On 23 Sep., 22:28, CraftyTech <hmmed...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Thanks Jeff.. It was the location of the PID file that was holding me > > back. I fixed it in /etc/init.d/puppet, and then distributed via > > puppet to the rest of the nodes. > > > Thanks, > > > On Sep 23, 12:32 pm, Jeff McCune <j...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:00 AM, CraftyTech <hmmed...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello All, > > > > > I'm running puppet 0.25.5, and CentOS 5.4. Whenever I run either > > > > service puppet status or /etc/init.d/puppet status it tells me the > > > > service is stopped when the service is actually running. I remember > > > > this being an issue w/ 0.25.4, but I thought it was addressed in > > > > 0.25.5. Does anyone know how to circumvent this issue? I know can > > > > just do kill -9 $puppet_pid, but I rather do service puppet stop, or / > > > > etc/init.d/puppet stop. > > > > Puppet is probably scanning the process table to determine if the > > > service is running or not. I recommend making sure the init script > > > has a proper status method and then configure puppet to call the > > > status method using hasstatus => true in the service resource. > > > > Hope this helps, > > > -- > > > Jeff McCunehttp://www.puppetlabs.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.