[chef] Re: initial chef-client run won't exit

[Brad Knowles < >]

On Dec 2, 2011, at 1:08 PM, 

 
 wrote:

> my client is Centos 5.7, chef 0.10.4-1. the way i intialize chef on the
> client is by running:
> 
> chef-client -j /etc/chef/first-boot.json -L /var/log/chef/client.log -l 
> debug --once
> 
> but that first chef-client run never exits, it hangs onto the tty (if
> there is one). or when it's run at first boot via an init script, i see
> the same hang.

The last time I saw anything like that, it was because someone had changed 
their knife.rb to default chef to staying resident and not exiting, which 
apparently does not get over-ridden by command-line options like "--once".

> 
 
>  ~]# cat /etc/chef/client.rb 
> log_level        :info
> log_location     STDOUT
> interval         21600

Oh, sorry -- it must have been this option in the client.rb, not in knife.rb. 
 But notice that the chef process below is running with a "-i 21600" 
argument, which is why all the chef-client runs will sleep at the end of the 
run instead of terminating.

Try removing this option.

-- 
Brad Knowles 
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SAGE Level IV, Chef Level 0.0.1