[chef] Re: Issues with chef-client service

[Brad Knowles < >]

On Apr 4, 2014, at 8:26 AM, Stewart, Curtis 
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> We set the [‘chef-client’][‘interval’] attribute to 86400 (1 day), under 
> the assumption that means chef-client will converge the node once a day.

That's my understanding, yes.  I think the general consensus is that this is 
typically done on a more frequent basis, like at least once an hour.  But 
with those settings, this is what I would expect to happen.

If the chef-client is getting killed or dying, then it would be possible to 
add a daily cron job that would send a "start" notification to the 
chef-client service, and if the service is already started then it should 
have no effect.

That would be a "belt-and-suspenders" approach to the problem.

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