Do the parent directories - /etc, /var, /var/log etc have 755 permissions?
Perhaps the puppet user can't access one or more of these directories.

  - Keith
On 30 Jan 2013 19:10, "Raymond Regnier" <raymondregn...@gmail.com> wrote:

> So I've changed all puppet directories and files to puppet:puppet..
> Nothing gets written to the masterhttp.log under /var/log/puppet
> it shows the master as starting when I do servce master start
> however it says this
>
> Starting puppet master version 3.0.2
> reopening log files
> Could not run: Permission denied - /var/log/puppet/masterhttpd.
> **log
>
> When I do a service puppetmaster status
> it states puppet dead but pid file exists. I manually delete the pid file
> and it does the same thing
>
>
> On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 2:00:27 PM UTC-5, Keith Burdis wrote:
>>
>> Try 'service puppetmaster restart' and see if you get any logs under
>> /var/logs/puppet.
>>
>> If that doesn't work try 'service puppetmaster stop', delete the pid file
>> and then run 'service puppet master start'.
>>
>> - Keith
>> On 30 Jan 2013 18:53, "Raymond Regnier" <raymond...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Tried that.. so now its owned by puppet:puppet -rw-rw however it still
>>> gives me the same errror
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 1:49:36 PM UTC-5, Keith Burdis wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The puppet master runs as the puppet user so try 'chown -R
>>>> puppet:puppet /etc/puppet /var/log/puppet /var/lib/puppet'.
>>>>
>>>>   - Keith
>>>>  On 30 Jan 2013 18:39, "Raymond Regnier" <raymond...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hey all, this is my first post. I did try and search the group first
>>>>> before posting :)
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been using puppet for quit some time now and decide it was time
>>>>> to install 3.02.. So I blew a way my old installation of 2.6 and started
>>>>> from scratch. So to test I have two servers running on cent os 6.3. One's
>>>>> to be a master and one's a client
>>>>>
>>>>> On the client I have installed (yum install puppet)
>>>>> on the master I have installed (yum install puppet and yum install
>>>>> puppet-server)
>>>>> I kept my old puppet.conf for reference and determined that most of
>>>>> the configuration options are the same... ( just a basic test.. wanna run 
>>>>> a
>>>>> couple modules to move files thats about it )
>>>>>
>>>>> I have yum installed everything as root
>>>>> So when I start my master.. I'm able to start the puppet agent(service
>>>>> puppet start).(as root)  but then when I try and start the master (service
>>>>> puppetmaster start) (as root) it says its starts.. but then when I do a
>>>>> service status it states puppet dead but pid file exists.. so then I go
>>>>> under /var/log/messages and I See this
>>>>>
>>>>> Starting puppet master version 3.0.2
>>>>> reopening log files
>>>>> Could not run: Permission denied - /var/log/puppet/masterhttpd.**lo**g
>>>>> I also see this too
>>>>>
>>>>> Starting puppet client version 3.0.2
>>>>> reopening log file
>>>>> failed to apply catalog connection refused - connect 2
>>>>> could not send report - connect
>>>>>
>>>>> when I check /var/log/puppet/masterhttpd.**lo**g it shows
>>>>> masterhttpd.log as rw -rw puppet puppet.. So naturally I do a chmod 777 on
>>>>> it but it doesn't make a difference.
>>>>>
>>>>> any ideas what could be my issue? Never had anything like this on 2.6..
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks so much
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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