[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: validation.pem seems to stop working after 24-48 hours.

[Mason Turner < >]

I worked around this by naming the file validation-server.pem and updating 
the server config as necessary. I'll get a ticket in for that shortly.

-- Mason Turner (mobile)

On May 26, 2011, at 3:01 PM, "Jason J. W. Williams" 
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 wrote:

>> You're definitely *not* deleting /etc/chef/validation.pem from the 
>> filesystem of the chef-server box?
>> 
>> If you delete it, it will be regenerated on the next restart.
> 
> Since I wasn't doing it, I tried stopping the chef-client on the
> server for 48 hours, and low and behold the problem went away. Thank
> you for your comment above, it made me go through the run list and I
> found the chef::delete_validation recipe was getting run. I didn't
> realize deleting validation.pem on the chef-server would cause a
> regeneration...figured the private key was only used by the
> chef-client. Thank you for your patience and help.
> 
> -J