I second checking for required environment variables. Attempt to run
in a shell that hasn't sourced your .bash_profile and related login-
time config files. Also, try it with an exec with "/bin/bash -x /etc/
init.d/dropbox start" to further troubleshoot.
On Jan 30, 3:05 pm, "Richard K. Miller" <richardkmil...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'm using Dropbox's command-line daemon on one of our machines and
> want to use Puppet to keep it running. The dropbox service is already
> installed and allows me to successfully execute /etc/init.d/dropbox
> [start/stop/restart/service]. Here's my code:
>
> class dropbox::service {
> service { "dropbox":
> ensure => running,
> }
>
> }
>
> I get the following syslog error when this runs:
> (/Stage[main]/Dropbox::Service/Service[dropbox]/ensure) change from
> stopped to running failed: Could not start Service[dropbox]: Execution
> of '/etc/init.d/dropbox start' returned 1: at /etc/puppet/modules/
> dropbox/manifests/init.pp:14
>
> However, if I run the above command manually, it works fine and
> returns 0:
>
> root@webhost:~# /etc/init.d/dropbox start ; echo $?
> Starting dropbox...
> 0
>
> Any ideas why puppet can't start the dropbox daemon?
>
> Richard
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