[chef] Re: Chef-client "sleep"

[Paul Graydon < >]

On 12/08/2012 11:00 PM, Michael Leikind wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Thanks to Opscode improved "status" page where I can see the "last check-in" 
> date, I have discovered that some of my nodes haven't run the chef-client for 3-4 days.
> When I login to these, I can successfully run the chef-cient manually, I can 
> also see that the chef-client process is running on the background with an 
> interval of 30 min.
> Any ideas on why I see this behaviour ?
>
> Thanks !
Your logs should be able to tell you, grab a look in /var/log/chef/   it 
should have details of whatever happened, which will be needed to figure 
this out.

A quick rough stab in the dark guess is it may be down to environment 
variables, like $PATH, being slightly different for a logged in user vs 
the running chef process.

Paul