[chef] Re: Simple command to get node info when logged in on node through SSH

[Brad Knowles < >]

On Jun 20, 2013, at 5:41 AM, Maxime Brugidou 
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> Hi Chirag, knife status has the same problem than knife node show: it does 
> not work "out of the box" when you are logged in on a node. You need to 
> specify the client.rb config, the node name... etc.
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> The goal is to get the Chef data of the node you are currently logged in.

Knife is a program meant to interact with the Chef server, to see what 
information it has cached from whenever the most recent chef-client run was 
on that particular node.  It is a program that is meant to be run from your 
Chef Workstation, not from individual nodes themselves.

Using a cookbook to update the motd file as part of each chef-client run is a 
good idea.

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