Issue #18468 has been updated by Matthaus Owens. Status changed from Merged - Pending Release to Closed
Released in Puppet 3.1.0 ---------------------------------------- Feature #18468: Improve confusing instructions in /etc/default/puppet regarding service start https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/18468#change-82454 Author: Henrik Lindberg Status: Closed Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: installation Target version: 3.1.0 Affected Puppet version: Keywords: debian Branch: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/1391 When installing puppet 3.1rc1 (tested on debian "squeeze") it attempts to start puppet as a service which results in this output (at the end): <pre> Setting up puppet (3.1.0-0.1rc1puppetlabs1) ... Starting puppet agent puppet not configured to start, please edit /etc/default/puppet to enable . </pre> When editing the mentioned file, it contains: <pre> # Defaults for puppet - sourced by /etc/init.d/puppet # Start puppet on boot? START=no # Startup options DAEMON_OPTS="" </pre> In order to make the service start START must be set to 'yes'. What is confusing here is that the comment above START says this is for starting puppet on boot. (I did not want it to start on boot, but I want it to start on demand). As it is unclear (to me) what exactly is controlled by the START flag it is hard to suggest a correct replacement, but something like "Master puppet service enablement flag. When set to 'no', the puppet service can not be started. When set to 'yes', the service can be started via your system's init.d services, which by default will start the puppet service on boot." Further, the output when installing is also somewhat misleading with a period appearing on a separate line. This led me to believe that there was text missing after the sentence `please edit /etc/default/puppet to enable` - enable what? how? - questions arise as the instruction in the file it is referring to are not very clear (i.e. what is reported above). It could have ended with "please edit /etc/default/puppet to enable by setting START=yes.", or even better perhaps "please edit /etc/default/puppet to enable by setting START=yes if you want puppet to run as a service." For a complete noob it may also be difficult to differentiate between "puppet" in the meaning of "agent" as opposed to "puppet" as a product which could also be made clearer by saying "puppet (agent) service" or words to that effect. -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
