[chef] Re: chef-client daemon on RedHat, was: Chef 0.10.10.beta.1

[Jesse Campbell < >]

In my group, we use rpms from rbel.frameos.org for our centos/rhel
machines, but we use the chef-client cookbook to maintain the init
scripts (and we have since switched to cron).
The cookbook seems to be the best place for establishing the init
scripts or not.

I had problems with the daemon dying off after a random number of
days, which is why we switched to a cron job.

-Jesse

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 13:36, Bryan McLellan 
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> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Arthur Kalmenson 
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>  wrote:
>> Not sure if this would be the best thread to ask, but it'd be nice if knife
>> bootstrap on a Red Hat server would create an init.d entry.
>>
>> I'm also finding that when chef-client is installed on Red Hat boxes, it
>> doesn't continue to check in with the chef server.
>
> You'll need to be specific about your installation, such as the
> version of Redhat, version of Chef, how Chef was installed (Rubygems?
> RPMs?), what bootstram template you're using with knife and if you're
> using the chef-client cookbook.
>
> This is the best place to get help. The best place to file a bug would
> be at http://tickets.opscode.com.
>
> Bryan