Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet can''t start service (dropbox) but init.d command works manually

Aaron Grewell
2012-01-31T17:25:04Z

> However, if I run the above command manually, it works fine and
> returns 0:
>
> root@webhost:~# /etc/init.d/dropbox start ; echo $?
> Starting dropbox...
> 0
>
> Any ideas why puppet can''t start the dropbox daemon?

I had the same problem when running ssh-keygen via an exec.  It ran fine
from the CLI but not via Puppet.  In my case it turned out that SELinux
had been left enabled, so that''s one thing to check.