[chef] Re: how to doing polling in a recipe

[Sean Horn < >]

On 10/15/12 2:27 PM, 

 
 wrote:
> Currently remote_file resource keeps getting the following error:
>
> Error connecting to
> http://SOMEURL/yum/5/x86_64/omakase-release-5-2.noarch.rpm -
> Connection timed out - connect(2)
>
> Basically the network configuration is not ready when the recipe got
> triggered.
> I would hope there is a resource I can use to wait and poll the status.
>
> Is there a way to fix this?
You could use the "retries" and "retry_delay" common attributes for this 
purpose: 
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Resources#Resources-CommonAttributes

Just include retries or both attributes (if you want to control delay 
between tries) as attributes in your remote_file resource.