foobared Nov 17 16:28:14 puppetmaster2003 puppet-master[10959]: On the agent: Nov 17 16:28:14 puppetmaster2003 puppet-master[10959]: 1a. On most platforms: find /var/lib/puppet/server/ssl -name puppet.pem -delete Nov 17 16:28:14 puppetmaster2003 puppet-master[10959]: 1b. On Windows: del "\var\lib\puppet\server\ssl\certs\puppet.pem" /f Nov 17 16:28:14 puppetmaster2003 puppet-master[10959]: 2. puppet agent -t Nov 17 16:28:18 puppetmaster2003 systemd[1]: Started Session c365144 of user gitpuppet. Nov 17 16:28:18 puppetmaster2003 systemd[1]: session-c365144.scope: Succeeded. Nov 17 16:28:28 puppetmaster2003 puppet-agent[11030]: Disabling Puppet. Nov 17 16:28:36 puppetmaster2003 systemd[1]: Started Session 417460 of user jbond. check files puppetmaster2003 ~ % sudo find /var/lib/puppet/server/ssl/ -name puppet.pem -ls [16:28:50] 1315220 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 puppet puppet 1582 Jan 20 2020 /var/lib/puppet/server/ssl/certificate_requests/puppet.pem 1315213 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 puppet puppet 800 Nov 17 15:28 /var/lib/puppet/server/ssl/public_keys/puppet.pem 1315212 4 -rw-r----- 1 puppet puppet 3243 Nov 17 15:28 /var/lib/puppet/server/ssl/private_keys/puppet.pem # stop apache; delete files puppetmaster2003 ~ % sudo systemctl stop apache2 puppetmaster2003 ~ % sudo find /var/lib/puppet/server/ssl/ -name puppet.pem -delete puppetmaster2003 ~ % sudo find /var/lib/puppet/server/ssl/ -name puppet.pem -ls puppetmaster2003 ~ % # start apache Nov 17 16:31:28 puppetmaster2003 puppet-master[11940]: Starting Puppet master version 5.5.10 puppetmaster2003 ~ % sudo find /var/lib/puppet/server/ssl/ -name puppet.pem -ls [16:31:28] 1315213 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 puppet puppet 1582 Nov 17 16:31 /var/lib/puppet/server/ssl/certificate_requests/puppet.pem 1315212 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 puppet puppet 800 Nov 17 16:31 /var/lib/puppet/server/ssl/public_keys/puppet.pem 1314808 4 -rw-r----- 1 puppet puppet 3243 Nov 17 16:31 /var/lib/puppet/server/ssl/private_keys/puppet.pem