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

On Wed, 02 Nov 2011, Bryan McLellan wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:13 PM,  
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>  wrote:
> > [Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:10:43 +0000] DEBUG: Sleeping for 21600 seconds
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> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Daniel DeLeo 
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>  wrote:
> > 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.

yep. that must be it. fairly recently i had a need to alter the default
interval. one day i'll go back to default, but not yet.

thanks!