[chef] 11.6 Appears to Break Logging to Syslog?

[Alastair Firth < >]

Hi Folks,

Receiving the following error when bootstrapping with 11.6 

/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/monologger.rb:69:in `exist?': can't convert Syslog::Logger into String (TypeError)

from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/monologger.rb:69:in `open_logfile'

[...]

from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.6.0/bin/chef-client:26:in `<top (required)>'

from /usr/bin/chef-client:23:in `load'

from /usr/bin/chef-client:23:in `<main>'

I believe this was introduced by https://github.com/opscode/chef/commit/43d01dcc6bfc44571d72a2e9bc4f32524f547ea7 - adding MonoLogger to resolve http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-3935

This breaks the solution at http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/arc/chef/2013-01/msg00037.html, and presumably also https://github.com/higanworks-cookbooks/chef-client_syslog , http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-273 , http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-2326 , etc.

Recommend adding a new attribute rather than continuing to overload log_location.

Anyone have a workaround?

Best,

Alastair