[chef] knife setup problem

[Gilles Devaux < >]

Hi,

I'm trying to setup knife but I run in a 'cannot read .pem file'

The first thing I'm trying to do is to get a API Key for knife:

gilles:.chef gilles$ knife client create gilles -f ~/.chef/gilles.pem -l debug
ERROR: Failed to read the private key /Users/gilles/.chef/gilles.pem:
#<Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory -
/Users/gilles/.chef/gilles.pem>,
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.4/lib/chef/rest.rb:60:in
`read'/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.4/lib/chef/rest.rb:60:in
`load_signing_key'/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.4/lib/chef/rest.rb:49:in
`initialize'/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.4/lib/chef/api_client.rb:231:in
`new'/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.4/lib/chef/api_client.rb:231:in
`save'/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.4/lib/chef/knife/client_create.rb:47:in
`run'/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.4/lib/chef/application/knife.rb:110:in
`run'/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.4/bin/knife:26/usr/bin/knife:19:in
`load'/usr/bin/knife:19
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.4/lib/chef/rest.rb:63:in
`load_signing_key': I cannot read /Users/gilles/.chef/gilles.pem,
which you told me to use to sign requests!
(Chef::Exceptions::PrivateKeyMissing)
       from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.4/lib/chef/rest.rb:49:in
`initialize'
       from 
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.4/lib/chef/api_client.rb:231:in
`new'
       from 
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.4/lib/chef/api_client.rb:231:in
`save'
       from 
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.4/lib/chef/knife/client_create.rb:47:in
`run'
       from 
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.4/lib/chef/application/knife.rb:110:in
`run'
       from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.4/bin/knife:26
       from /usr/bin/knife:19:in `load'
       from /usr/bin/knife:19

The command is prompting me with
{
 "public_key": null,
 "name": "gilles",
 "json_class": "Chef::ApiClient",
 "admin": false,
 "chef_type": "client"
}

-> I don't really know what to set here, I tried different input for
public_key with the same result.

This is my knife.rb file
 log_level                :info
log_location             STDOUT
node_name                'gilles'
client_key               '/Users/gilles/.chef/gilles.pem'
validation_client_name   'chef-validator'
validation_key           '/Users/gilles/.chef/validation.pem'
chef_server_url          'http://chefserver:4000'
cache_type               'BasicFile'
cache_options( :path => '/Users/gilles/.chef/checksums' )
cookbook_path [ '/Users/gilles/Sites/chef/cookbooks',
'/Users/gilles/Sites/chef/site-cookbooks' ]

the validation key is the one created during chef-server install and I
can register chef-clients without problems.

chef rubygem is 0.8.4

Do I need to setup the dev box as a chef-client for knife to work?

Any other idea?

Thanks

--Gilles