Hi Sy, The Puppet agent will usually log to syslog, both in case of errors or succes, so check in /var/log/syslog (on Ubuntu) for any messages. By default, the agent runs every half hour so I'd expect to see some entries in the log every half hour.
Make sure the puppet agent service runs as root. The puppet master does not need to be root but the agent needs permission to check and change the system. If you used the distro's of Puppetlabs' packages this is most likely already the case. Instead of the obsolete puppetd command, use puppet agent --test for manually starting a run. Add --noop for a trial-run, say if you just want to see what would happen. Contrary to Drew's suggestion we actually prefer running the agent service, instead of cron. Just to provide another opinion :). Still, both methods should work fine, so we'll need to figure that out first. Regards, Martijn Op zaterdag 6 april 2013 00:48:10 UTC+2 schreef Sy Doveton het volgende: > > Hi, > > I am new to puppet and am experimenting with some basic commands. I have a > puppetmaster server and a couple or servers with puppet client. All servers > are running ubuntu. > > I have set up the link between the master and the clients and their certs > have been signed etc. > > The clients have had puppet started via 'service puppet start' and can > confirm they are running with 'service puppet status'. > > When I make any changes on the master nothing happens on the servers. I > have waited a couple of hours and e.g. the required package has not been > installed on the client. As soon as I run on the client:- > > puppetd --test > > It will immediately install the package so I know my manifests / modules > are correct as it does what I request when I manually ask it. I just need > it to run periodically automatically and get the latest info from the > master. > > Any ideas of things I can check? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.