I have been running puppet master and agent in a same node. While master works correctly, it seems the agent is not logging. I checked the /var/log/puppet folder and rsyslog, but they have nothing about the agent. I am using the following configuration:
[main]
logdir=/var/log/puppet
vardir=/var/lib/puppet
ssldir=/var/lib/puppet/ssl
rundir=/var/run/puppet
factpath=$vardir/lib/facter
prerun_command=/etc/puppet/etckeeper-commit-pre
postrun_command=/etc/puppet/etckeeper-commit-post
server=name_of_the_server
[master]
# These are needed when the puppetmaster is run by passenger
# and can safely be removed if webrick is used.
ssl_client_header = SSL_CLIENT_S_DN
ssl_client_verify_header = SSL_CLIENT_VERIFY
I have other nodes with only the agent that are logging correctly. Any ideas of what could be causing this?
Thanks in advance!
So, I decided to use journalctl to retrieve the logs. They were already available there. All I had to do was grep it:
journalctl | grep puppet
Just one observation: journalctl is non-persistant, which means it throws away the logs at every boot, so if you want to keep your logs you have to change this behaviour.