The startup script set the pid file to /var/run/puppet/agent.pid, as the
error messages below indicate.

Doug.

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Denmat <tu2bg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Depending on your distro, you might find your package has your pids defined
> in different directories to your puppet.conf.
>
> The RPM packages had that problem. Check your init script against your
> puppet.conf
>
>
> On 22/10/2010, at 8:30, Douglas Garstang <doug.garst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Having some issues disabling puppet. I want to use scripts to update RPM's,
> and obviously you need to quiesce puppet first.
>
> The pid file directory is empty:
> [pax] app01 ~:# ls -l /var/run/puppet/
> total 0
>
> Puppet is stopped:
> [pax] app01 ~:# service puppet status
> puppetd is stopped
>
> Really really stopped:
> [pax] app01 ~:# ps -ef | grep puppet
> root     13079  7958  0 21:27 pts/0    00:00:00 grep puppet
>
> So, I start puppet:
> [pax] app01 ~:# service puppet start
> Starting puppet:                                           [  OK  ]
>
> The pid file exists, and it's pid matches the running puppet:
> [pax] app01 ~:# cat /var/run/puppet/agent.pid
> 13612
>
> [pax] app01 ~:# ps -ef | grep puppet
> root     13612     1 22 21:28 ?        00:00:08 /usr/bin/ruby
> /usr/sbin/puppetd
> root     13978  7958  0 21:28 pts/0    00:00:00 grep puppet
>
> And, then I try and disable puppet:
>
> [pax] app01 ~:# puppetd disable
> Could not prepare for execution: Could not create PID file:
> /var/run/puppet/agent.pid
>
> What's up with that?
>
> This is puppet 2.6.1.
>
> Doug.
>
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