Puppet users - Jan 2007 - Fatal messages being lost from daemon

I want to use puppetrun so I added --listen to the puppetd
command-line.  Puppetd would run and then immediately exit.  I
couldn''t figure out the cause because there was nothing in the logs.
I finally figured it out when I ran it with --verbose.

# puppetd --listen --verbose
Will not start without authorization file /etc/puppet/namespaceauth.conf

My guess is that the fatal message is going to stderr.  But the
program has already forked and redirected stderr to /dev/null.  The
message does not end up in the log file which makes it hard to
diagnose the problem.

I am running on Centos 4 using the packages from Fedora Extras.

 - Ian

On Jan 29, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Ian Burrell wrote:
> I want to use puppetrun so I added --listen to the puppetd
> command-line.  Puppetd would run and then immediately exit.  I
> couldn''t figure out the cause because there was nothing in the
logs.
> I finally figured it out when I ran it with --verbose.
>
> # puppetd --listen --verbose
> Will not start without authorization file /etc/puppet/ 
> namespaceauth.conf
>
> My guess is that the fatal message is going to stderr.  But the
> program has already forked and redirected stderr to /dev/null.  The
> message does not end up in the log file which makes it hard to
> diagnose the problem.
Fixed in svn.

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