Puppet users - Mar 2013 - Relocating "confdir" on a puppet-master caused a small problem with the agent

New setup, Puppet 3.1.0 and Passenger on a RHEL 5 server. 

I wanted to move $confdir from /etc/puppet to follow local practices about where
to install stuff.

Anyway, I made the necessary change in
/usr/share/puppet/rack/puppetmasterd/config.ru and set confdir in the [main]
part of puppet.conf, then I ran puppet master --no-daemonize (without Passenger)
to generate its SSL certificates and such, explicitly specifying confdir on the
command line.

Once I modified my Apache config to properly point at all the ssl files, apache
and passenger fired right up.

Now the bugaboo: puppet agent does not run unless I give it the proper confdir
on the command line !
I tried adding it to /etc/sysconfig/puppet as without success. 

The workaround I have in place is to symlink my confdir to /etc/puppet 
Or symlink $confdir/puppet.conf to /etc/puppet/puppet.conf 

Is there a better way to do this ? 


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On 3/8/2013 7:48 AM, Dan White wrote:
> New setup, Puppet 3.1.0 and Passenger on a RHEL 5 server.
>
> I wanted to move $confdir from /etc/puppet to follow local practices
> about where to install stuff.
>
> Anyway, I made the necessary change in
> /usr/share/puppet/rack/puppetmasterd/config.ru and set confdir in the
> [main] part of puppet.conf, then I ran puppet master --no-daemonize
> (without Passenger) to generate its SSL certificates and such,
> explicitly specifying confdir on the command line.
>
> Once I modified my Apache config to properly point at all the ssl files,
> apache and passenger fired right up.
>
> Now the bugaboo: puppet agent does not run unless I give it the proper
> confdir on the command line !
> I tried adding it to /etc/sysconfig/puppet as without success.
>
> The workaround I have in place is to symlink my confdir to /etc/puppet
> Or symlink $confdir/puppet.conf to /etc/puppet/puppet.conf
>
> Is there a better way to do this ?
	I''m not clear on how you''ve structured things so far, but I
would run
the master and agent with entirely separate dir structures. Makes it 
simpler to manage the agents the same way regardless of what machine it 
resides upon.

I''d revert /etc/puppet/puppet.conf to an agent config and remove any 
sort of [master] stanza.

I''d create /usr/share/rack/puppermaster.conf and point your config.ru
at
it like so. Make sure you remove any configdir or var statements that 
would conflict with the settings you''ll put in puppetmaster.conf

ARGV << "--rack"
ARGV << "--config=/usr/share/rack/puppermaster.conf"
require ''puppet/application/master''

my puppetmaster.conf looks roughly like this.
[main]
confdir=/var/puppet/etc
logdir=/var/puppet/logs
vardir=/var/puppet/var
ssldir=$vardir/ssl
rundir=/var/puppet/run

Assuming your paths are correct and everything is chown''ed properly it 
should just work.

Ramin

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On 7/4/2013 8:26 PM, Ramin K wrote:
> my puppetmaster.conf looks roughly like this.
> [main]
> confdir=/var/puppet/etc
> logdir=/var/puppet/logs
> vardir=/var/puppet/var
> ssldir=$vardir/ssl
> rundir=/var/puppet/run
Obviously (or perhaps not) you''d add your [master] config settings to 
this file.

Ramin

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