Re: Installation issues wrt chef-solo

[Adam Jacob <adam@opscode.com>]

The wiki is in the process of being updated, but the code for the solo
install won't work on CentOS.

Check out the RPMs:

http://chef.viviti.com/

Adam

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Ian Kallen <spidaman.list@gmail.com> wrote:
> Still learning my way around chef (and git and runit...), I've got CentOS
> 5.3 x86_64 running under vmware fusion. I'm running through an install  that
> uses the "Installation on CentOS 5.2 with gems" scenario but where it hands
> off to the "Installation" wiki, it's bombing. On
> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installation it says to do this
>
> $ sudo chef-solo -r
> http://wiki.opscode.com/download/attachments/1179839/chef-server-install-solo-0.5.2.tar.gz
>
> but that fails out 'cause the runit, stompserver etc doesn't get set up.
>  This is what I did manually to get all of the services started up (requires
> adding http://rubyworks.rubyforge.org/redhat/$releasever/RPMS/ to yum):
>
> yum install -y libicu-devel runit
> wget
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/couchdb-0.8.1-4.el5.x86_64.rpm
> rpm -i couchdb-0.8.1-4.el5.x86_64.rpm
> wget
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/js-1.70-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
> rpm -i js-1.70-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
>
> wget
> http://wiki.opscode.com/download/attachments/1179839/chef-server-install-solo-0.5.2.tar.gz
> mkdir /var/tmp/chef-server-install-solo-0.5.2
> tar xzvf chef-server-install-solo-0.5.2.tar.gz -C
> /var/tmp/chef-server-install-solo-0.5.2
>
> cd /var/tmp/chef-server-install-solo-0.5.2/cookbooks/chef/template/default/
> for i in stompserver chef-indexer chefserver
> do
>  mkdir -p /var/service/$i/log/main
>  cp sv-$i-log-run.erb /var/server/$i/log/run
>  chmod 755 /var/server/$i/log/run
>  cp sv-$i-run.erb /var/server/$i/run
>  chmod 755 /var/$i/$i/run
> done
>
> My target is to put configuration of some CentOS EC2 instances under chef
> management. I'm fine with my manual setup to go from playing in vmware to
> doing it for real on EC2 but if there's something I'm missing on the wiki
> that's cool, please just let me know (I've been suspecting I need to get
> vision correction anyway :)
> thanks,
> -Ian
>
>



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