[chef] Re: Re: using env attr to override a default

On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, AJ Christensen wrote:

> Yo,
> 
> Your environments attributes are wrong:
> 
> On 27 September 2011 17:49,  
> <
 >
>  wrote:
> >
> > first, the prod and dev environments:
> >
> >    [chef-repo]$ knife environment show dev
> >    chef_type:            environment
> >    cookbook_versions:
> >    default_attributes:
> >      mail-client:
> >        relayhost:  mungbeans.dev.dorqtown.com
> >      mail-server:
> >        relayhost:  [smtp.gmail.com]:587
> >    description:          Development environment (dev)
> >    json_class:           Chef::Environment
> >    name:                 dev
> >    override_attributes:
> 
> this should be:
> default_attributes "postfix" => { "relayhost" => "whatever" }
> 
> The attributes are deep merged together onto the node and thus the
> atribute structure must remain the same. Does this make sense?
> 
> If you can post the on-disk, ruby version of the environment files I
> can point out the problem, otherwise good luck!

i can show you the json version of the env files. i was trying to
cobble together the ruby, but not getting it quickly. for the sake of
speed i'll show the json. i see what you're saying about attribute
structure, so i corrected it, i believe. but the client's relayhost
in main.cf is still picking up the setting from the postfix cookbook
attr setting rather than the dev env setting.

[chef-repo]$ cat environments/dev.json
{
  "name": "dev",
  "default_attributes": {
    "postfix": {
      "mail-server": {
        "relayhost": "[outbound.mailhop.org],[smtp.gmail.com]:587"
      },
      "mail-client": {
        "relayhost": "mungbeans.dev.dorqtown.com"
      }
    }
  },
  "json_class": "Chef::Environment",
  "description": "Development environment (dev)",
  "chef_type": "environment"
}

[chef-repo]$ knife node show sous-chef1.dev.dorqtown.com -r
run_list:  role[mail-client]

[sous-chef1-dev ~]# grep relayhost /etc/postfix/main.cf
relayhost = mailrelay.dev.dorqtown.com


where to look?