Puppet users - Mar 2013 - Can puppet report the console output from service foo status?

I have an odd problem. The first time I install my new package, puppet 
comes back with "Execution of ''/sbin/service chirp_fe
start'' returned 1:"
When I run this command manually and on all subsequent puppet runs it 
succeeds.  

So I''m looking for a way to capture the console output from the
invocation
of /sbin/service chirp_fe start.   Is there something I can turn on in 
Puppet to capture this output? 


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Post the actual manifest, or we can only offer conjectures.

On Friday, March 1, 2013 11:20:26 AM UTC-8, Larry Fast
wrote:
>
> I have an odd problem. The first time I install my new package, puppet 
> comes back with "Execution of ''/sbin/service chirp_fe
start'' returned 1:"
> When I run this command manually and on all subsequent puppet runs it 
> succeeds.  
>
> So I''m looking for a way to capture the console output from the
invocation
> of /sbin/service chirp_fe start.   Is there something I can turn on in 
> Puppet to capture this output? 
>
>
>
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Oh, I will :-)

Have you made sure the package is installed prior to the attempt of
starting the service (i.e., does the service require the package?)

The easiest way to go about the problem would be to replace the service
resource with an exec for the sake of debugging (under all other
circumstances, it''s lousy design, though).
In the exec, you can specify logoutput => "on_failure" to have
puppet
write the output to console or log.

HTH,
Felix

On 03/01/2013 10:24 PM, Ellison Marks wrote:
> Post the actual manifest, or we can only offer conjectures.
> 
> On Friday, March 1, 2013 11:20:26 AM UTC-8, Larry Fast wrote:
> 
>     I have an odd problem. The first time I install my new package,
>     puppet comes back with "Execution of ''/sbin/service
chirp_fe start''
>     returned 1:"   When I run this command manually and on all
>     subsequent puppet runs it succeeds. 
> 
>     So I''m looking for a way to capture the console output from
the
>     invocation of /sbin/service chirp_fe start.   Is there something I
>     can turn on in Puppet to capture this output? 
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