Happened to notice this while poking Puppet failures on Prometheus - acme-chief is failing to sync certs to the secondary host on Toolforge:
Aug 08 09:00:01 tools-acme-chief-01 systemd[1]: Started Sync acme-chief certificates. Aug 08 09:00:01 tools-acme-chief-01 acme-chief-certs-sync[15539]: Could not create directory '/nonexistent/.ssh'. Aug 08 09:00:01 tools-acme-chief-01 acme-chief-certs-sync[15539]: acme-chief@tools-acme-chief-02.tools.eqiad.wmflabs: Permission denied (publickey,hostbased). Aug 08 09:00:01 tools-acme-chief-01 acme-chief-certs-sync[15539]: rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender] Aug 08 09:00:01 tools-acme-chief-01 acme-chief-certs-sync[15539]: rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(235) [sender=3.1.3] Aug 08 09:00:01 tools-acme-chief-01 systemd[1]: acme-chief-certs-sync.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION