[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: chef-client runs only locally as root

[John Alberts < >]

Or try 'sudo -i chef-client'

Regards,
John


On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Daniel DeLeo 
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 wrote:
> Hi there!
> Have you tried using sudo -E or your distro's method for setting
> default PATHs (/etc/profile IIRC)? Also, ssh itself may set the PATH
> as described in the environment section of its man page[1].
>
> As you've discovered, we use a shebang line like:
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby
> This is because the shebang line must specify the absolute path to the
> executable, but we can't rely on ruby to be at the same path on all
> systems.
>
> 1. http://man.cx/ssh#sec10
>
> HTH,
> Dan DeLeo
>
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Gilles Devaux 
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>  wrote:
>> More on this:
>>
>> I added these:
>> ohai-0.5.0/lib/ohai/plugins/ruby.rb:25 (inside run_ruby)
>> Ohai::Log.info("path: #{ENV['PATH']}");
>> status, stdout, stderr = run_command(:command => 'which ruby');
>>
>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:35:32 +0000] DEBUG: Loading plugin languages
>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:35:32 +0000] INFO: path: /usr/bin:/bin
>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:35:32 +0000] DEBUG: ---- Begin which ruby STDOUT ----
>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:35:32 +0000] DEBUG:
>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:35:32 +0000] DEBUG: ---- End which ruby STDOUT ----
>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:35:32 +0000] DEBUG: ---- Begin which ruby STDERR ----
>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:35:32 +0000] DEBUG: which: no ruby in (/usr/bin:/bin)
>>
>> It seems ohai (or chef) runs inside a limited /usr/bin/env. Is there a way 
>> to add path at runtime?
>>
>> I have a workaround using symlinks but it's not ideal.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> --Gilles
>>
>>
>> On Mar 11, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Joshua Timberman wrote:
>>
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>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> That error looks like one I ran into where 'ruby' wasn't in the $PATH, 
>>> though 'ruby1.8' was. Are you on a system like Debian that has separate 
>>> ruby1.8 and ruby packages, and 'ruby' isn't installed?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 11, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Gilles Devaux wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to execute chef-client remotely but I run into this 
>>>> exception:
>>>>
>>>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ohai-0.5.0/lib/ohai/system.rb:121:in 
>>>> `join': can't convert nil into String (TypeError)
>>>>       from 
>>>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ohai-0.5.0/lib/ohai/system.rb:121:in 
>>>> `all_plugins'
>>>>       from 
>>>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ohai-0.5.0/lib/ohai/system.rb:118:in 
>>>> `each'
>>>>       from 
>>>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ohai-0.5.0/lib/ohai/system.rb:118:in 
>>>> `all_plugins'
>>>>       from 
>>>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.6/bin/../lib/chef/client.rb:121:in
>>>>  `run_ohai'
>>>>       from 
>>>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.6/bin/../lib/chef/client.rb:126:in
>>>>  `determine_node_name'
>>>>       from 
>>>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.6/bin/../lib/chef/client.rb:83:in
>>>>  `run'
>>>>       from 
>>>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.6/bin/../lib/chef/application/client.rb:204:in
>>>>  `run_application'
>>>>       from 
>>>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.6/bin/../lib/chef/application/client.rb:196:in
>>>>  `loop'
>>>>       from 
>>>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.6/bin/../lib/chef/application/client.rb:196:in
>>>>  `run_application'
>>>>       from 
>>>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.6/bin/../lib/chef/application.rb:57:in
>>>>  `run'
>>>>       from 
>>>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.6/bin/chef-client:26
>>>>       from /usr/local/bin/chef-client:19:in `load'
>>>>       from /usr/local/bin/chef-client:19
>>>>
>>>> Here is the debug log
>>>>
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: Loading plugin kernel
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- Begin uname -s STDOUT ----
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: Linux
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- End uname -s STDOUT ----
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- Begin uname -s STDERR ----
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG:
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- End uname -s STDERR ----
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: Ran  (uname -s) returned 0
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- Begin uname -r STDOUT ----
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: 2.6.32.1-rscloud
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- End uname -r STDOUT ----
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- Begin uname -r STDERR ----
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG:
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- End uname -r STDERR ----
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: Ran  (uname -r) returned 0
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- Begin uname -v STDOUT ----
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: #15 SMP Mon Feb 22 13:22:15 UTC 
>>>> 2010
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- End uname -v STDOUT ----
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- Begin uname -v STDERR ----
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG:
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- End uname -v STDERR ----
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: Ran  (uname -v) returned 0
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- Begin uname -m STDOUT ----
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: x86_64
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- End uname -m STDOUT ----
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- Begin uname -m STDERR ----
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG:
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- End uname -m STDERR ----
>>>> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: Ran  (uname -m) returned 0
>>>>
>>>> I am having the same exception when:
>>>> - I invoke sudo chef-client from a non-root user (this is the same use 
>>>> case as trying remotely with ssh 'sudo chef-client'
>>>> - the chef-client deamon runs every 30 minutes -> the deamon runs as 
>>>> root:root: (root      1218  0.0  0.9  92588 19360 ?        S    Mar10   
>>>> 0:00 /usr/local/bin/ruby /usr/bin/chef-client -d -c /etc/chef/client.rb 
>>>> -i 1800 -s 20 -L /var/log/chef/client.log)
>>>>
>>>> only running chef-client as root locally works.
>>>>
>>>> I have the same $PATH in both cases:
>>>> - running as root
>>>> - running as sudo (I have included /sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/local/sbin)
>>>>
>>>> Any help appreciated at this point
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> --Gilles
>>>
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John Alberts