[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New user feedback and questions

[Joshua Timberman < >]

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On Sep 8, 2009, at 10:50 PM, Tim Uckun wrote:

> I was able to get the client and the server talking each other.
> I was able to deploy my cookbooks
> My cookbooks all passed the syntax check.
> My cookbook is failing to run on the client with a cryptic message
> which I have yet to hunt down.
>
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/mixin/template.rb:33:in `render_template':
> undefined local variable or method `client' for
> #<Erubis::Context:0xb76d2010> (Chef::Mixin::Template::TemplateError)
>
> Obviously one of my templates has an error in it.

Yes, that's an error from the template generator (Erubis) in parsing  
the template itself. Can you paste your template resource from the  
recipe, and the template contents (.erb) either in a gist/pastie or in  
a response?

> BTW can chef email me the error? I would prefer that every time a
> client had a problem it email me the message.


You could use Ruby's Net::SMTP in a cookbook library to do this, or  
set up a log parsing tool that reads the client output for messages  
and emails you when it finds something interesting. For example I've  
used logsurfer+ in the past for similar functionality (though not w/  
Chef).

Net::SMTP RDoc:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/smtp/rdoc/index.html

Logsurfer+
http://www.crypt.gen.nz/logsurfer/

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