Puppet agent not logging when master is located in the same node

Question

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!

Try addind "[main]" in the beging of your conf file. I think that should help. — Gilad Sharaby
Actualy, it has the [main] tag. I just forgot to put here. I'm going correct. — EGS
I was thinking that if there is a way to debug the puppet run , I could trace the steps it takes and then compare with the nodes that are logging and then search where they differ. So I started to run puppet agent -t --noop --verbose --debug, but couldn't find anything useful. Does someone have another sugestion to investigate this issue? — EGS

EGS EGS · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-23T14:17:58

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.

Puppet agent not logging when master is located in the same node

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