Re: chef client installation

[Joshua Timberman <joshua@opscode.com>]

Hello Chris,

First, I apologize for any confusion and inconvenience.

I've updated the "Installing Chef from HEAD" page to reflect changes  
that 0.5.7 brings.

<http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+from+HEAD>

The bootstrap-0.5.6.tar.gz cookbook bundle doesn't configure clients,  
just server. Version 32 [1] of the main Installation page describes  
how to install using the older method. Do note that the 0.5.6 version  
will start Chef Server as a runit service, and 0.5.7+ will run Chef  
Server as a Rack app under Passenger+Apache. Also, we have a page that  
describes how to switch from a runit-based chef-server to Passenger [2].

We think the new procedure is better, as fronting chef-server with  
Apache+Passenger allows stronger security control.

[1] Version 32 page: <http://wiki.opscode.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1835069 
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[2] <http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/How+to+Convert+chef-server+from+runit+to+Passenger 
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On Apr 25, 2009, at 9:09 PM, snacktime wrote:

> Ya 0.5.7 looks like what I should be testing with, as the  
> installation stuff looks quite a bit more complete.
>
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Arjuna Christensen <aj@junglist.gen.nz 
> > wrote:
> I believe Josh is working through some changes on the wiki for the  
> upcoming 0.6 release (which can be tested as 0.5.7), so this  
> information may not necessarily be "in sync".
>
> Regards,
>
> AJ
>
>
>
> On 26/04/2009, at 2:57 PM, snacktime wrote:
>
> Still working on it, but at first glance the chef client  
> installation as documented on the wiki is not working correctly.  It  
> installs the server even when specifying chef::client, chef path is  
> not set to /srv/chef as the default as stated in the readme, and the  
> file mode in the recipe is a string, chef seems to expect an  
> integer.  The recipes also assume that all the gem binaries are in / 
> usr/bin.
>
> This is version 0.5.6.
>
> Chris

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