Puppet users - Dec 2008 - puppet 0.24.6 conf/redhat/client.init broken in RHEL versions < 5

The conf/redhat/client.init script (installed in /etc/init.d) in 0.24.6
has this "status" method:

  status)
        status -p "$pidfile" $puppetd
        RETVAL=$?
        ;;

Unfortunately the ''-p "$pidfile"'' option is
available in Red Hat Server
5 but not earlier versions, where it produces an error:

$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 7)
$ /etc/init.d/puppet status
pidof: invalid options on command line!

pidof: invalid options on command line!

-p is stopped
$

We were using a standard cron job "/etc/init.d/puppet status ||
/etc/init.d/puppet restart" on our hosts to ensure Puppet stayed
running; now it restarts Puppet every time the cron job runs (until I
changed the cron job to use a different check for the existence of
puppetd).

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Hi
> Unfortunately the ''-p "$pidfile"'' option is
available in Red Hat Server
> 5 but not earlier versions, where it produces an error:
can you file a bug? (and maybe even a patch for it?)

cheers pete

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