Hi all,
I'm relatively new to chef, so I hope I'm not asking a silly question, but I can't seem to find any information relating to my problem anywhere else.
I've bootstrapped some Centos 6 nodes sucessfully, both using the rbel yum/rpm method which yields a chef-client of version 10.6 and (alternatively) using gems which yields a chef-client of version 10.14.4.
The nodes communicate just fine with my chef-server (10.8 running on Ubuntu 11.10), but I'm seeing some behavior I can't explain when I use templates.
I have a custom recipe that, for example, replaces /etc/sshd_config with a template in order to change the location of the authorized_keys file. The recipe also creates the authorized_keys file (at /etc/ssh/publicSSHkeys) and ensures it's there. Permissions
on the files are correct, and set in the recipe. The files are created successfully by the recipe.
However, when I restart the sshd service (either from the recipe, or from the command line on the server itself) I get an error. Specifically, "Starting sshd: /etc/ssh/sshd_config: Permission denied [FAILED]". At first I thought this may be related to the permissions
on the file itself, but those are set properly, to 600 just like the file that was created by yum when the openssh-server package was initially installed.
It seems, for some reason, that existing files which are overwritten by chef templates in recipes can't then be found by the system.
The same sort of problem occurs when I use a chef recipe to install nrpe and overwrite /etc/nrpe.cfg with a template.
The oddest part is that the exact same recipe works properly in Ubuntu 11.10/12.04, templates overwrite the conf files on the node, and the services (sshd, nrpe) start fine.
I've been racking my brain about this for some time now, and google/documentation/knowledge base haven't provided an answer, but I must be missing something.
Anyone have any ideas?
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Charles J. Burns
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