[chef] chef clients out of sync with master

[Tim Dunphy < >]

Hey all,

I've recently setup a little test lab with chef intended to control several hosts.

I'm running chef 11.8.2 on an ubuntu 13.10 server.

For some reason the chef clients on a few of the hosts (including chef-client on the chef server itself) are falling out of sync with the master. The other 2 are keeping pace with it without any problem.

If I run chef-client manually on the hosts that are falling behind, it catches up with the server and the web UI in on the chef server reports that they are in sync. But if I leave it alone for a while this happens again, until I run it manually. Short of setting up a cron job to keep the hosts in sync, is there a more elegant solution to this problem? How do I troubleshoot this from a chef perspective?

Thanks
Tim

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