Puppet users - Nov 2011 - puppet agent writing on /var/log/messages

Hello all,

Have noticed puppet agent continue to write agent runtime output to /
var/log/messages, although $vardir, logdir default to /var/lib/puppet/
log, agent run logs keep getting writtent to system messages file. I
recall this question has been asked before but did not see a
resolution.

Is there a way to redirect these to a custom log file (say
$puppetdlog ?)

Thanks
Kanishka

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On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 11:45:11AM -0700, Kanishka Hettiarachchi
wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Have noticed puppet agent continue to write agent runtime output to /
> var/log/messages, although $vardir, logdir default to /var/lib/puppet/
> log, agent run logs keep getting writtent to system messages file. I
> recall this question has been asked before but did not see a
> resolution.
Puppet logs to syslog for logs to get there.

/var/log/messages on CentOS
/var/log/daemon.log on Debian
/var/log/syslog on Ubuntu

Where the various priorities/facilities land is configured by your syslog
daemon. To change puppet''s facility you''d use the
"syslogfacility" parameter in puppet.conf. Check your syslog
documentation to get the list of facilities.

Depending on the syslog daemon you could configure it to send puppet''s
log lines to a separate file. You''d either do this by some kind of
matching or by using a local facility for puppet logging (again refer to syslog
docs).

Of course you''d configure your syslog daemon with puppet.
 
> Is there a way to redirect these to a custom log file (say
> $puppetdlog ?)
> 
> Thanks
> Kanishka
> 
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--logdest=/some/file/name on the cli, or set as a parameter in puppet.conf. 
Right now it appears your logdest is syslog.

On Nov 2, 2011, at 11:45 AM, Kanishka Hettiarachchi
wrote:
> Have noticed puppet agent continue to write agent runtime output to /
> var/log/messages, although $vardir, logdir default to /var/lib/puppet/
> log, agent run logs keep getting writtent to system messages file. I
> recall this question has been asked before but did not see a
> resolution.
> 
> Is there a way to redirect these to a custom log file (say
> $puppetdlog ?)
> 
> Thanks
> Kanishka
> 
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Thanks so much for the input

On Nov 2, 2:57 pm, Christopher Wood <christopher_w...@pobox.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 11:45:11AM -0700, Kanishka Hettiarachchi wrote:
> > Hello all,
>
> > Have noticed puppet agent continue to write agent runtime output to /
> > var/log/messages, although $vardir, logdir default to /var/lib/puppet/
> > log, agent run logs keep getting writtent to system messages file. I
> > recall this question has been asked before but did not see a
> > resolution.
>
> Puppet logs to syslog for logs to get there.
>
> /var/log/messages on CentOS
> /var/log/daemon.log on Debian
> /var/log/syslog on Ubuntu
>
> Where the various priorities/facilities land is configured by your syslog
daemon. To change puppet''s facility you''d use the
"syslogfacility" parameter in puppet.conf. Check your syslog
documentation to get the list of facilities.
>
> Depending on the syslog daemon you could configure it to send
puppet''s log lines to a separate file. You''d either do this by
some kind of matching or by using a local facility for puppet logging (again
refer to syslog docs).
>
> Of course you''d configure your syslog daemon with puppet.
>
>
>
> > Is there a way to redirect these to a custom log file (say
> > $puppetdlog ?)
>
> > Thanks
> > Kanishka
>
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thanks a lot

On Nov 3, 3:44 am, Jo Rhett <jrh...@netconsonance.com>
wrote:
> --logdest=/some/file/name on the cli, or set as a parameter in puppet.conf.
 Right now it appears your logdest is syslog.
>
> On Nov 2, 2011, at 11:45 AM, Kanishka Hettiarachchi wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Have noticed puppet agent continue to write agent runtime output to /
> > var/log/messages, although $vardir, logdir default to /var/lib/puppet/
> > log, agent run logs keep getting writtent to system messages file. I
> > recall this question has been asked before but did not see a
> > resolution.
>
> > Is there a way to redirect these to a custom log file (say
> > $puppetdlog ?)
>
> > Thanks
> > Kanishka
>
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