[chef] Re: centos clients not updating

[Alex Kiernan < >]

On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Tim Dunphy 
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 wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>  The reason I am writing to you today is because I have a small collection
> of 4 hosts meant to report in to a chef server for updates.
>
> 2 of the hosts are Ubuntu 12.04 and two are Centos 5.9. The two Ubuntu hosts
> (one of which is the chef server itself) are checking in to the chef server.
> But the two centos hosts are not.
>
> Chef client is at Chef 10.18.2 on one ubuntu machine and at  Chef 11.4.0 on
> the chef server.
>
> Chef client is at Chef 11.4.4 on both centos machines.
>
> I see when I run the chef-client manually on one of the centos hosts  I get
> the following output:
>
...
> /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-11.4.4/bin/../lib/chef/resource/lwrp_base.rb:42:in
> `const_defined?'

Presumably installed using gems rather than omnibus?

> I was just wondering if I can get some tips on how to get the client to run
> smoothly on these hosts.
>

Use the omnibus installer?

http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/

--
Alex Kiernan