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

[Albert Llop < >]

Awesome!
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On 13 July 2010 16:27, Jacobo García < "> > wrote:

That worked fine.

Thanks!

Jacobo García López de Araujo
blog: http://robotplaysguitar.com
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On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Albert Llop < "> > wrote:
> 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
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