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

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:13 PM,  
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> [Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:10:43 +0000] DEBUG: Sleeping for 21600 seconds

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Daniel DeLeo 
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> As long as you have the interval setting configured in your client.rb or 
> set from the command line, Chef will infer that you want it to loop. Using 
> the `--once` command line option will turn off looping even if you have an 
> interval set in your config somewhere.

Right, so normally you don't need to provide "--once" to a chef-client
one, but if you have an interval set in your /etc/chef/client.rb, the
client is picking that up and running in a loop. You probably didn't
always have an interval configured, but then decided to change it from
the default interval, so now all chef-client runs, daemonized and from
the command line, are running in loop mode.

Bryan