[chef] Re: Execute resource and sudo

[Tristan Sloughter < >]

So it appears to be a cwd problem actually. I didn't expect the commands to rely on that.

Thanks for the debug_level suggestion :). I will hopefully no longer forget to use that first when I run into a problem.

=ERROR REPORT==== 11-Mar-2011::15:58:53 ===

file:path_eval([".","/home/tsloughter"],".erlang"): permission denied

=ERROR REPORT==== 11-Mar-2011::15:58:53 ===

ERROR: {error,

                                    "Error when reading /home/tsloughter/.erlang.cookie: eacces"} - []

epmd was not running, attempting to start it...

=ERROR REPORT==== 11-Mar-2011::15:58:54 ===

ERROR: {error,

                                    "Error when reading /home/tsloughter/.erlang.cookie: eacces"} - []

ERROR: net_kernel start failure: {error,

                                  {shutdown,

                                   {child,undefined,net_sup_dynamic,

                                    {erl_distribution,start_link,

                                     [['__admin_7502',longnames]]},

                                    permanent,1000,supervisor,

                                    [erl_distribution]}}}STDERR: 

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Tristan Sloughter < "> > wrote:

To be exact I run the client by 'sudo chef-client'.

I'll get the logs shortly.

Tristan

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Adam Jacob < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Tristan, do you have debug logs? (Run the chef-client with --log-level debug)

Also, are you running the client as root?

Adam

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Tristan Sloughter
< " target="_blank"> > wrote:
> I've run into a problem where I'm using the execute resource and using the
> 'user' attribute. But the command exits with a 1 (not much other information
> is given).
> However, if I instead append 'sudo su - user' to the command in the command
> attribute and do not use the attribute it works fine...
> Tristan

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