[chef] Re: Client execution time out

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Thursday, August 7, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Carlos Camacho wrote:

> Hello, I'm having some timeouts when unzipping files, this process can
> take some ours and its giving me this error:
> 
> [2014-08-07T14:49:19+00:00] FATAL: Mixlib::ShellOut::CommandTimeout:
> batch[unzip_san] (frontiers_custom::populator line
> 129) had an error: Mixlib::ShellOut::CommandTimeout: command timed out:
> ---- Begin output of "cmd.exe" /c
> "C:/Users/ADMINI~1/AppData/Local/Temp/2/chef-script20140807-2520-1fskyqe.bat"
> ----
> STDOUT: C:\>7zG x -y C:\san\*.7z -oC:\san\
> STDERR:
> ---- End output of "cmd.exe" /c
> "C:/Users/ADMINI~1/AppData/Local/Temp/2/chef-script20140807-2520-1fskyqe.bat"
> ----
> 
> 
> There is a way to extend this time? The recipe works fine when i unzip
> a few files but when i have a case with a lot of files i got the
> timeout error.
> 
> 
> Cheers! 
If I remember correctly, the `batch` resource should be a derivative of 
`script`, so it should support the timeout parameter, as documented here: 
http://docs.getchef.com/resource_script.html ;

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Daniel DeLeo