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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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.