[chef] Re: newb question about bootstrap client (with knife bootstrap) [sidetrack]

[Jesse Callaway < >]

I'm using the client_service recipe suggested, and it does install the  
chef-client as a daemon. HOWEVER, it will rewrite your /etc/chef/ 
client.rb file periodically (as advertised). I like to give my nodes  
UUID's for their node name, however the template which comes with the  
chef cookbook does not supply a node_name.

I tried adding this to the template, but the property comes up blank  
when the erb is interpreted.

node_name          "<%= node[:name] %>"

Am I looking for the correct property/symbol? Using `knife node show  
NODE -a name` shows me that I'm barking up the wrong tree.

{
  "name": null
}


 However, the full output of `knife node show NODE` contains this -

{
  "normal": {
    "tags": [

    ]
  },
{
  "normal": {
    "tags": [

    ]
  },
  "name": "8C770152-9F3A-400B-8C57-9646FE7ED28C",
  "override": {
  },
...
}

Here is how I called bootstrap in this "instance" -

knife bootstrap ec2-xyz.amazonaws.com --node-name `uuidgen` -- 
log_level info --ssh-user root --run-list "role[mta]"


-jesse

On Nov 30, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:

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> Hi
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> Thanks, I'll try to run chef::client_service after install and see  
> if it works.
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> Bye
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> On Nov 30, 2010, at 5:40 PM, Joshua Timberman wrote:
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> > Hello!
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> > On Nov 30, 2010, at 5:09 AM, Seth Chisamore wrote:
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> > > The knife bootstrap subcommand does not enable any sort of init
> > > script.   If you would like this behavior please add the
> > > chef::bootstrap_client recipe to your nodes run list (preferably in
> > > some sort of base role).
> >
> >
> > I recently updated the Chef cookbook (version 0.22.0) to have a new  
> > recipe called 'client_service' that will only set up the desired  
> > service style - init_style (runit, init script, daemontools, or  
> > bluepill). The bootstrap_client also drops off the config file /etc/ 
> > chef/client.rb, but when using the bootstrap subcommand for knife,  
> > or ec2 server create, it will already have the config file set up.
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > - --
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