[chef] Re: Problem when starting and stoping chef-client as init service

[Albert Llop < >]

Hola Jacobo!
Check the pidfile variable in /etc/init.d/chef-client and see if it's the same than in /etc/chef/client.rb. Otherwise when starting the client it will create the pidfile where specified in the /etc/chef/client.rb configuration, but will try to stop it checking the pidfile specified in the init.d one.

:D hope it helps
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On 13 July 2010 12:58, Jacobo García < "> > wrote:

Hi chefs,

I'm having a problem when using chef debian init scripts. The
screenshot attached explains it better. The problem is that chef init
script does not behave consistently; It does not stop chef-client when
you try it but returns success, you have to manually kill chef-client.
It returns fail when starting it but the client is started.

I've seen this behavior at least on 0.8.16 and 0.9.0 also on both
ubuntu 8.04 and 10.04.

Is it a bug on the script?, does anyone know about this problem?.

Thanks in advance.

Jacobo García López de Araujo
blog: http://robotplaysguitar.com
http://workingwithrails.com/person/13395-jacobo-garc-a