[chef] Re: WEBUi - Force chef-client action

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

On Mar 18, 2011, at 2:56 AM, WEINHAPL Andreas wrote:

> HI,
>
> I saw the Opscode platform that it’s possible to mouse over the tab  
> “run list” at the point “Status” and see the complete run list of  
> this node. But if I’m installing the server on my own, I didn’t get  
> this feature. I can click on it and nothing happened or mouse over.   
> For what is this button?!  I thought, that you are able to push a  
> new run list to a node but this is only an idea and I can’t do it L  
> Soo my  question is, is there a way to force an chef-client via the  
> WEBUI?! It will be very nice, because if you have a necessary task  
> and you have to do it now, you can’t login to every server and enter  
> the command “chef-client”

As others have said this has nothing to do with actually running  
anything, but at least when I looked into this on the 0.9.12 apt  
packaged version it wasn't working due to an incorrectly minified  
version of jQuery (which was no longer syntactically correct). I have  
vague memories of jtimberman mentioning that it was some debian policy  
to use a central version of jQuery and that was breaking things.

--Noah