Hi, I''m running puppet 2.7.12 on CentOS 5.8. I''m having trouble getting the puppet master to log to a file. The same configuration is working fine for the puppet agent. A single line is written to the master''s log file when it starts. When logging to syslog or the console, I get lots of output each time an agent talks to the master. When logging to a file, I get nothing. The master does not even appear to have the log file open. Below is my configuration and some shell output demonstrating the problem. Does this configuration work for others, or have I run into a bug? $ egrep -v ''#|^$'' puppet.conf [main] vardir = /var/lib/puppet logdir = /var/log/puppet rundir = /var/run/puppet ssldir = $vardir/ssl pluginsync = true factpath = $vardir/lib/facter autoflush = true [agent] server = redacted classfile = $vardir/classes.txt localconfig = $vardir/localconfig listen = false [master] modulepath = redacted storeconfigs = true dbadapter = sqlite3 dblocation = $vardir/storeconfigs.sqlite certname = redacted $ egrep -v ''#|^$'' /etc/sysconfig/puppet PUPPET_LOG=/var/log/puppet/agent.log PUPPET_EXTRA_OPTS=--verbose $ egrep -v ''#|^$'' /etc/sysconfig/puppetmaster PUPPETMASTER_LOG=/var/log/puppet/master.log PUPPETMASTER_EXTRA_OPTS=--verbose $ ps -wwfp $(pgrep -fd, puppet) UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 12566 1 6 18:33 ? 00:00:53 /usr/bin/ruby /usr/sbin/puppetd --logdest=/var/log/puppet/agent.log --verbose puppet 15612 1 5 18:43 ? 00:00:15 /usr/bin/ruby /usr/sbin/puppetmasterd --logdest /var/log/puppet/master.log --verbose $ sudo pkill -SIGUSR1 puppetd $ sudo ls -lt /var/log/puppet/ total 25136 -rw-rw---- 1 puppet puppet 25661723 Apr 6 18:51 masterhttp.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21638 Apr 6 18:51 agent.log -rw------- 1 puppet puppet 3889 Apr 6 18:44 rails.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68 Apr 6 18:43 master.log -rw-r----- 1 root root 4850 Apr 4 17:02 http.log $ sudo cat /var/log/puppet/master.log Fri Apr 06 18:43:43 -0400 2012 Puppet (notice): Reopening log files $ sudo tail -n 1 /var/log/puppet/agent.log Fri Apr 06 18:51:47 -0400 2012 Puppet (notice): Finished catalog run in 11.73 seconds $ sudo fuser -s /var/log/puppet/agent.log; echo $? 0 $ sudo fuser -s /var/log/puppet/master.log; echo $? 1 -- Brian Pitts Systems Administrator | EuPathDB Bioinformatics Resource Center 706-542-1447 | bdp@uga.edu | http://eupathdb.org -- 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+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.