[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Running chef-client as a service

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Fwiw, I planned to investigate supporting upstart as an "init_style"  
in the bootstrap recipe. The next version of Chef and accompanying  
chef::bootstrap_* recipes will support init scripts that are pulled  
from the installed gem.

On Jun 1, 2010, at 6:43 AM, Dmitry V'yal 
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 wrote:

> On 05/31/2010 08:57 PM, Joshua Miller wrote:
> > Here is what I do for my debian package installs, one problem I  
> > have not fixed is it does not reload chef upstart when the values  
> > change ... new to upstart and  a restart does not pickup the new  
> > vars so I have to figure it out later.  Since I dont change it much  
> > I have not really cared.
>
> thanks for sharing. I adopted your recipe, but turned the service  
> into the task run by cron. RAM is precious resource on VPS.
> I couldn't find a proper way to calculate times for cron, though.  
> Also I think /etc/init.d/chef-client is not really necessary.
>
> This what is have for now:
>
> $ cat chef/recipes/client-deb.rb
> case node[:platform]
> when "ubuntu"
>  if node[:platform_version].to_f >= 9.10
>    service "chef-client" do
>       provider Chef::Provider::Service::Upstart
>       supports :restart => true, :reload => true
>    end
>
>    template "/etc/init/chef-client.conf" do
>      source "upstart-chef-client.conf.erb"
>      owner "root"
>      group "root"
>      mode 0644
>      backup 0
>      notifies :start, resources(:service => "chef-client")
>      not_if do File.symlink?("/etc/init.d/chef-server") end
>    end
>
>    cron "chef-client" do
>      minute ((0..59).to_a.delete_if {|x| x % (@node[:chef] 
> [:client_interval].to_i / 60) != 0 }.join ",")
>      command "service chef-client start"
>    end
>  end
> end
>
> % cat chef/templates/default/upstart-chef-client.conf.erb
> start on runlevel [2345]
>
> task
>
> script
>        exec /usr/bin/env chef-client -c /etc/chef/client.rb -s <%=  
> @node[:chef][:client_splay] %>
> end script