Issue #20173 has been updated by Eddie Satterly.
A Splunk app has no way of checking if the service is logging where it is supposed to be and there are just no entries, or if the service has started with a certain cmd line switch easily. In the case of a config file that is out of the box for us as we use .conf files as well so we could check state and verify if in failure condition or just no activity. Otherwise we would have to do custom command for ps-ef with grep for service invocation and parse for cmd line switch and that is ugly and prone to issues, especially with version changes. ---------------------------------------- Feature #20173: Logdest cannot be set in the puppet.conf https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/20173#change-101114 * Author: Celia Cottle * Status: Investigating * Priority: Normal * Assignee: Charlie Sharpsteen * Category: logging * Target version: * Affected Puppet version: * Keywords: customer * Branch: ---------------------------------------- This is potentially a duplicate issue of a few things floating around out there, but most focus on masterlog, so I'm opening this up separately. Currently you can use --logdest /var/log/somelogfile, but you cannot set it in the puppet.conf. This seems like an oversight, especially since there seems to be a good number of people who wish to keep all puppet logs out of /var/log/messages. There are ways around this (etc/init.d/pe-puppet), but they are purely workarounds. It looks like some of the reason for this is the old masterlog option, which it seems is no longer in use, used to be the preferred way of setting in the puppet.conf. Potentially related tickets: https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5952 https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4550 https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12361 -- 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://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
