[chef] Re: Re: running chef-client on cmdline won't exit

[Brad Knowles < >]

On Nov 1, 2011, at 8:40 PM, Daniel DeLeo wrote:

>> is using the "--once" switch the proper thing to do? if memory serves,
>> i didn't used to have to do that. maybe that was a prior release..
> 
> Yes, use `--once` -- that's exactly what it's for. This is necessary 
> because Chef treats the presence of an interval setting as an indication 
> that it should loop, and we can't use the daemonize setting for this since 
> you may want to run Chef in a loop in the foreground when using some 
> process supervisor tools (such as runit).

That's weird, because his chef-client instance that he has that is already 
running in the background is using the -i flag, but the instance he's running 
from the command line is not.  I'm in that same situation myself, and yet for 
me the copy of chef-client that I run from the command line does exit when 
the single run is complete.

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Brad Knowles 
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