Like others, I'm not sure I understand what you are asking.
chef-client runs *every* recipe in your run list every time. It converges every recipe every time - but then it only executes the parts that need executing. If it tried to reconfigure everything on every run, you'd have a chef-client that's excruciatingly slow, and likely would break all kinds of things (such as restarting services in the middle of the day).
I have a feeling that you are trying to get chef-client to actually execute something every time?
There are two answers to that.
First of all, chef may be the wrong tool for that job. It is not a good replacement for cron or the like.
Secondly, it *can* be done. Simply have the resource depend on some condition that is never true. Or, if your goal is to run the same thing regularly, use chef to install a script into cron.
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-----Original message-----
From: Fouts, Chris < >
Sent: Wednesday 15th October 2014 7:23
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Subject: [chef] RE: RE: How to force convergence without bootstrapping?
Sorry, let me ask it differently.
I do the following
1. knife bootstrap a node
2. knife node run_list add <node> “run_list”
3. chef-client on node, which converges the cookbooks
Normally, re-running chef-client on the node again will not do anything since the cookbooks have already run the first time, meaning I’ll just get an “up-to-date” message
My question is, how can I re-run chef-client to make it “act” like I have not done step 3 above the first time?
Chris
From: Nguyen, Dang [mailto:
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 8:12 PM
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Subject: [chef] RE: How to force convergence without bootstrapping?
Assuming you've bootstrapped the node already and assigned it a role, you simply run chef client.
-----Original Message-----
From: Fouts, Chris
Received: Tuesday, 14 Oct 2014, 5:08PM
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Subject: [chef] How to force convergence without bootstrapping?Is there a way to “force” my cookbooks to rerun without bootstrapping my nodes?
Chris
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