[chef] How do I change 'interval' and 'splay' using chef-dk on Windows

[Simon Detheridge < >]

So, I'm bootstrapping a Windows node with 'knife bootstrap windows' using 
chef-dk

Chef is using the windows_service init recipe. I've set chef_client/interval 
and chef_client/splay as default attributes.

I can't find how to apply these to the Windows service. As far as I can tell, 
the service is looking at c:\chef\client.rb for its settings. However, if I 
ensure these are written into a file in client.d, Bad Things happen when I 
run chef-client::config because my bootstrapping chef decides it's going to 
act like a daemon and never terminates once the chef run finishes.

If I skip running the config recipe, the setting is ignored because a 
client.rb isn't written that includes stuff in client.d. If I manually write 
out a new client.rb using a different cookbook (probably not recommended) 
there's no way to restart the chef service to reload it. (It doesn't support 
restart. Can't use net stop/start as it waits for the bootstrapping chef to 
exit before stopping, so there's no way to restart it again.)

Am I missing a trick, somewhere?

Thanks,

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