Puppet logs

It took me hours to figure out how to make puppet write the log files. I'm using EPEL puppet-2.6.6 on CentOS 5.6 x86_64. Puppet documentation is misleading, you may find puppetdlog and masterlog in this page Puppet Configuration Reference. I tried to set them as syslog or a file in /var/log/puppet, neither worked. It turns out that you have to give --logdest option on the command line. If you run puppet service, you can set the option in /etc/sysconfig/puppet and /etc/sysconfig/puppetmaster here is /etc/sysconfig/puppet

# Where to log to. Specify syslog to send log messages to the system log.
PUPPET_LOG=/var/log/puppet/agent.log

# Autoflush logs
PUPPET_EXTRA_OPTS=--autoflush

and /etc/sysconfig/puppetmaster

PUPPETMASTER_LOG=/var/log/puppet/master.log

PUPPETMASTER_EXTRA_OPTS=--autoflush

It is better to add --autoflush. I like to use puppet kick and monitor the log. Without --autoflush, puppet seems not working because the log is not written to disk.