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  1. Bug #1397898
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 1397898

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Jurjen Bokma (j-bokma-t) wrote : Re: [Bug 1397898] [NEW] incorrect PID in initscript

On 12/01/2014 10:42 PM, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
> That's a delightfully evil hack. Will using an upstart job work instead,
> or do you need to keep track of the PID there, as well (something for
> post-start, then)?

Matthaus Owens of Puppet Labs responded that Puppet *does* write its own
PID. This is true for both the newest Puppet version from Puppet Labs
and the version currently in Ubuntu Trusty. So my patch is not needed
after all. It is enough to put the following in /etc/default/puppet
(which is source by the init script):

PIDFILE="/var/lib/puppet/run/agent.pid"

That is assuming that puppet.conf is the default. Alternatively,
according to
https://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/configuration.html#pidfile
it is possible to set the location of the PIDfile to
/var/run/puppet/${NAME}.pid in /etc/puppet/puppet.conf.