On Monday, July 9, 2012 4:12:18 AM UTC-5, Yves Ntonfo wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm new in using Puppet as the most people here :-)
>
> I just have a problem when i want to start the puppet master daemon. I got 
> this :
>
> [root@FRPARSRNLINNTO ~]# service puppetmaster start
> Démarrage de puppetmaster 
> :/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/pidlock.rb:77:in `unlink': 
> Permission denied - /var/lib/puppet/run/master.pid (Errno::EACCES)
>

Like many system services, the puppetmaster service normally runs as an 
unprivileged user (often one named "puppet" belonging to group "puppet").  
That user must have sufficient access to the filesystem to do its job.  In 
this particular case, it does not have sufficient access to remove an old 
PID file, /var/lib/puppet/run/master.pid, or perhaps to even to read the 
directory.

The puppetmaster needs read access to /var/lib/puppet and everything in it 
(including list / traverse access for directories).  Additionally, it needs 
write access to /var/lib/puppet/run.  Under normal circumstances, nothing 
should be written in /var/lib/puppet/run that the master cannot access, but 
even if something is, the master should still be able to unlink it if it 
has write access to the directory (and otherwise, not).

So either make /var/lib/puppet/run owned by user puppet, with user rwx 
permission, or make it owned by root, group puppet, with group rwx 
permission.


John

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