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

[Jesse Callaway < >]

On Dec 2, 2010, at 11:56 AM, Daniel DeLeo wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Jesse Callaway <
>   
> > 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
> >
> >
> > node_name          "<%= node.name() %>"
> >
> > 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.

Word. Thanks. That makes sense.

> > -jesse
>
> Dan DeLeo