[chef] Re: Chef server refusing to provide some files

[Joshua Miller < >]

Sounds like a syntax error in your cookbook to me.  Any chance you could post 
a gist of that section please?

Joshua 



On Oct 9, 2012, at 11:11 AM, "Julian C. Dunn" 
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 wrote:

> We're having a problem with our Chef (10.12) server where it's
> refusing to provide some files to clients. For example, I have a
> "collectd" cookbook with a files/default/redis_info.py, but when I try
> to run the recipe that requires it, the Chef server refuses to give me
> the file. I keep getting
> 
> [2012-10-09T14:03:00-04:00] FATAL: NoMethodError: undefined method
> `source' for Chef::Resource::File
> 
> and inspecting the cookbook cache on the client, I see no "files"
> directory under the relevant cookbook.
> 
> Downloading the cookbook by hand using "knife cookbook download" from
> the Chef server works fine. What could be wrong?
> 
> - Julian