To enable puppetd and/or puppetmasterd, add: puppetd_enable="YES" puppetmasterd_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf Individual config files such as %%PREFIX%%/etc/puppet/puppetmasterd.conf are deprecated. Use a single file, %%PREFIX%%/etc/puppet/puppet.conf. Now the default PID directory is %%PUPPET_RUNDIR%%.