Does the directory /var/run/puppet exist and is that directory writable? Go to it and try the command 'touch test' as root. John
John Kennedy (_8(|) I have a yellow dog: http://www.theyellowdogproject.com/The_Yellow_Dog_Project/About.html Anatidaephobia is the fear that somehow, somewhere a duck is watching you - urbandictionary.com "What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave." - Baltasar Gracian. "The short term pain of accepting the truth is much better than the long term pain of believing an illusion." - Unknown "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority." - Lord Acton On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Michael Lopez <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a particular question about an error message I keep receiving. I > have installed Puppet on Centos 6.5. I have two servers running. One as the > Puppet Master and the other as the Puppet client. > > Every time I run this command: puppet master --verbose --no-daemonize > > as the root user > > I get this error: > > Notice: Starting Puppet master version 3.7.1 > Error: Could not run: Could not create PID file: /var/run/puppet/master.pid > > What would be the reason why now I am getting that error? Is puppet master > supposed to be running? How can I create the CA certificate and the puppet > master certificate if that command can't be fixed? > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/35d91173-c52f-40b2-b4cd-7fb624685eb3%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/35d91173-c52f-40b2-b4cd-7fb624685eb3%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAD6OLfy6aONHUHWK_JZHS7Q9g2ZRH1ghdtKQLqJBCaCkOcxDeA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
