[SOLVED] Puppet agent logs on Fedora /var/log/puppet empty

Issue

I installed puppet on Fedora 22 using the package provided by the fedora dnf repo. Everything is working great. I get configurations applied from the puppet master just fine. However, I would like to see notices when configurations are applied. I assumed that since that these would show up in /var/log/puppet, but that directory is empty even when it's recently applied a new configuration from an interval run.

Here is how I start the puppet agent:

systemctl start puppet

Here is my log config:

[root@host ~]# puppet agent --configprint all |grep -i log
agent_catalog_run_lockfile = /var/lib/puppet/state/agent_catalog_run.lock
catalog_cache_terminus = json
catalog_terminus = rest
log_level = notice
logdir = /var/log/puppet
masterhttplog = /var/log/puppet/masterhttp.log
puppetdlog = /var/log/puppet/puppetd.log
syslogfacility = daemon
use_cached_catalog = false
[root@host ~]# 

Here is the puppet command running:

[root@host ~]# ps aux |grep puppet
root      9610  0.0  3.7 252104 37868 ?        Ssl  20:43   0:01 /usr/bin/ruby-mri /usr/bin/puppet agent --no-daemonize
root     11520  0.0  0.2 114328  2100 pts/0    S+   21:25   0:00 grep --color=auto puppet
[root@host ~]# 

So it looks like based on the config, log_level is set to Notice and logs should be put in /var/log/puppet.

There is a /var/log/puppet directory but it's empty, even though I know puppet is running and applying new configs, because I see the changes showing up on the agent host.

Can anyone tell me how to actually get logs written on the agent?

Thank you!

Solution

So I've decided to use journalctl to view the logs, I wasn't use to this before but I find it even nicer than tailing a regular log file:

journalctl -u puppet -f

Answered By - Jared Sprague