Hello Chris,

     For me it was just the path to the pid file from puppet's init
script.  If I was you, I'd check the location of the lock file, and
the executable as well.  Otherwise, you should try Jeff's suggestion.
Hope it helps.

Cheers,

Henry

On Sep 24, 3:32 am, Christian <berwangerchrist...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Henry,
>
> what was exactly wrong with your PID file? It seems i have a very
> similar problem with the init.d puppetd stop start service. I checked
> the PIDFILE path and the file was written correctly there. Also a
> process id is written in that file.
>
> Christian
>
> On 23 Sep., 22:28, CraftyTech <hmmed...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Thanks Jeff.. It was the location of the PID file that was holding me
> > back.  I fixed it in /etc/init.d/puppet, and then distributed via
> > puppet to the rest of the nodes.
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > On Sep 23, 12:32 pm, Jeff McCune <j...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
>
> > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:00 AM, CraftyTech <hmmed...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hello All,
>
> > > >     I'm running puppet 0.25.5, and CentOS 5.4.  Whenever I run either
> > > > service puppet status or /etc/init.d/puppet status it tells me the
> > > > service is stopped when the service is actually running.  I remember
> > > > this being an issue w/ 0.25.4, but I thought it was addressed in
> > > > 0.25.5.  Does anyone know how to circumvent this issue?  I know can
> > > > just do kill -9 $puppet_pid, but I rather do service puppet stop, or /
> > > > etc/init.d/puppet stop.
>
> > > Puppet is probably scanning the process table to determine if the
> > > service is running or not.  I recommend making sure the init script
> > > has a proper status method and then configure puppet to call the
> > > status method using hasstatus => true in the service resource.
>
> > > Hope this helps,
> > > --
> > > Jeff McCunehttp://www.puppetlabs.com/

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