[chef] Will will not work with a command

[David Montgomery < >]

Hi,

I am havihng a severe issue with chef executing a command.


If I manually execute this command after fail the I can boot strap.
But even in a prior recipe I execute this command

execute "thes" do
  command "echo 'ip_conntrack' >> /etc/modules"
  action :run
end


chef fails with this error. When I load a template and execute  sysctl
-p /etc/sysctl.conf

---- Begin output of sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf ----
STDOUT: net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle = 0
net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse = 0
net.ipv4.tcp_orphan_retries = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 25
net.ipv4.tcp_max_orphans = 8192
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 32768    61000
STDERR: error: "net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_max" is an unknown key
---- End output of sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf ----
Ran sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf returned 255
^Z
[1]+  Stopped                 tail -f chef_bootstrap.out

From the command line I execute echo 'ip_conntrack' >> /etc/modules

Then I rerun and it works.


Why will not chef work?