Sy, Welcome to Puppet. Hopefully we can help you get going so you can experiment further.
First, what version of Puppet are you running? I'm guessing by your commands that it's definitely prior to version 3. I recommend updating to Puppet 3 before going further, especially since you're just starting out. If the Ubuntu repos don't have that version then you can look at the documentation on how to install the Puppet apt repos - http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/puppetlabs_package_repositories.html Ok, so now on to your problem. I highly recommend that you don't run Puppet as a service. It is much easier to control when run as a cron job. We choose to run Puppet at 30 minute intervals on our clients. The command we run is: puppet agent --onetime --no-daemonize --logdest syslog This should solve your issue. It doesn't particularly say why your puppet service wasn't working, but I think the cron method is the way you want to go in the long run anyway. Let me know if this helps or if you have other questions. On Friday, April 5, 2013 5:48:10 PM UTC-5, Sy Doveton wrote: > > Hi, > > I am new to puppet and am experimenting with some basic commands. I have a > puppetmaster server and a couple or servers with puppet client. All servers > are running ubuntu. > > I have set up the link between the master and the clients and their certs > have been signed etc. > > The clients have had puppet started via 'service puppet start' and can > confirm they are running with 'service puppet status'. > > When I make any changes on the master nothing happens on the servers. I > have waited a couple of hours and e.g. the required package has not been > installed on the client. As soon as I run on the client:- > > puppetd --test > > It will immediately install the package so I know my manifests / modules > are correct as it does what I request when I manually ask it. I just need > it to run periodically automatically and get the latest info from the > master. > > Any ideas of things I can check? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" 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-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
