Also, I did not have to modify any of the other files like /etc/hosts
or /etc/sysconfig/network.

Thanks,
Sriramu

On Jul 14, 5:47 pm, Sriramu Singaram <sriramus....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guyz,
>
> After lot of changes, I finally found out the solution for the
> problem, it was the /etc/sysconfig/puppet and /etc/logrotate.d/puppet
> file.
>
> Once I removed this file everything works perfectly. Apparently this
> file I guess overrides the  commandline flags I give to puppetd when
> starting it up like this usr/sbin/puppetd --certname=xxx.xxxxxx --
> logdest=/var/log/cloud/puppet/puppet.log
>
> when I did a ps aux | grep puppet, I found that the puppet process
> eventually ran with different settings: /usr/bin/ruby usr/sbin/puppetd
> -logdest=/var/log/puppet/puppet.log
>
> the certname option was totally ignored here also note that the log is
> actually stored under /log/puppet. I still do not understand how this
> file could affect the hostname for certificate creation strangely
> things are working perfectly now even when I do not force the puppetd
> with the --certname flag.
>
> Thanks,Sriramu
>
> On Jul 1, 9:02 pm,SriramuSingaram <sriramus....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Thank you very much for the reply Guyz. I really appreciate it. I am
> > working on CentOS and as suggested I tried turning off the nscd
> > service with no success.
>
> > I am curently working setting the hostname in the different
> > configuration files, hope it works.
>
> > will keep you guys posted.
>
> > Thanks,Sriramu
>
> > On Jul 1, 9:01 am, jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org> wrote:
>
> > > On Jun 30, 10:57 am, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
>
> > > > As an aside that really isn't that relevant to the OP, I've had good 
> > > > success
> > > > with nsscache in the past.
>
> > > >http://code.google.com/p/nsscache/wiki/MotivationBehindNssCache
>
> > > That's cool.  I'll have to study it is a possible solution for some of
> > > my current problems, such as laptops that can't reach our name
> > > services when they're off our internal network.  Thanks!
>
> > > John

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