Issue #2137 has been updated by lludwig.
At minimum it should be noted for support that this type of issue with happen when using sudo to restart the service. The issue is most other services do not really interact with the operating system. Since Puppet (it's supposed to replace SSH right? :-)) forks out shell processes with 'exec' and 'generate'. ---------------------------------------- Bug #2137: puppet init.d script runs as sudo's home folder, not root's http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/2137 Author: lludwig Status: Needs design decision Priority: Normal Assigned to: lutter Category: Target version: unplanned Complexity: Unknown Affected version: 0.24.7 Keywords: On CentOS/RH I've discovered that any restart of the daemon via sudo will cause unexpected results with scripts/applications that rely on the home folder of root (ie /root). This was a problem I experienced with mysql and mysql plugins and modules were expecting a .my.cnf for accessing mysql without having to display username/password insecurely. To test I created a class that ran to display env data. <pre> class test { exec { "env; set": logoutput => true, } } </pre> When I restarted via root user (ie su - root) <pre> HOME=/root </pre> As 'sudo service puppet restart' <pre> HOME=/home/larry </pre> To force puppetd to run as not only root perms but root folder The solution is to add '--user root' to the init.d script the daemon function call: <pre> daemon --user root $puppetd ${PUPPET_OPTS} ${PUPPET_EXTRA_OPTS} </pre> I assume this issue will also happen on other distros/platforms and have not tested the results of the startup scripts. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://reductivelabs.com/redmine/my/account --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
