[chef] Re: Re: How to cope with reboot?

[Joshua Timberman < >]

We do it with a report handler in our `windows` cookbook for handling 
reboots.  

https://github.com/opscode/cookbooks/blob/master/windows/files/default/handlers/windows_reboot_handler.rb
  



On Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Ranjib Dey wrote:

> yes.. you can, using the execute resource. but that will abruptly terminate 
> the chef run, you can also achieve this using report handler to ensure that 
> the chef run is completed and then only reboot happens, also, you can use 
> chef to set a reboot after finishing the chef run using standard `at` 
> daemon.
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> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Geoff Meakin 
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> > Hi,
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> > I need to configure something on my system that requires a reboot to take 
> > effect… can I do that with Chef? Yes, it is Linux ;-)
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> > Thanks in advance,
> >  
> > Geoff  

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