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

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Jesse Callaway 
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 wrote:
> I figured out a workaround. Looking in the rdocs for chef I found a name()
> method in the Node class. So the template now has
>
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> node_name          "<%= node.name() %>"
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> So this allows nodes which are not registered by their fqdn to have the
> chef::client_service recipe in their run list.
>
> What was wrong with the syntax of node[:name]? I'm still learning!

The node name isn't an attribute the way that attributes set by ohai
or your recipes are, so you can't access it in the same way.

>
> -jesse
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>

Dan DeLeo