[chef] Re: Seeing a weird 403 Error while running recipe

[Steven Danna < >]

Hi,

The url you see getting a 403 is a signed bookshelf link that is only
valid for a set number of seconds.  In this case, your link is valid
until the unix time 1417724019 which is

   Thu, 04 Dec 2014 20:13:39 -0000

or

    Thu, 04 Dec 2014 15:13:39 -0500

which is about 6 minutes before this request was made
(04/Dec/2014:15:19:45 -050).  By default, certain files are downloaded
lazily during your chef run.  Thus, if your chef run takes a long
time, the links for the files you got at the beginning of the run can
become invalid.  To fix this you have a few options:

1) Increase the time to live on the links.  If you control your
server, you can place the following in /etc/chef-server/chef-server.rb
(/etc/opscode/chef-server.rb on 12):

    erchef['s3_url_ttl'] = 3600

and run

    chef-server-ctl reconfigure

The value is in seconds, so you can set it to whatever you feel is
appropriate.

2) Turn of lazy-loading in chef-client.  By downloading all of the
files at the beginning of the run, you often avoid this.  To turn of
lazy loading, put the following in /etc/chef/client.rb on your
chef-client's:

    no_lazy_load true

3) Find what parts of your chef-client run are slow, and make then
faster.  This is sometimes impossible :)

I typically go with (1).

Cheers,

Steven



On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Jennifer Fountain 
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 wrote:
> On the client, when the recipe runs, I get this error:
>
> * Net::HTTPServerException occurred in chef run:
> template[/etc/sysconfig/rsyslog] (server::default line 14) had an error:
> Net::HTTPServerException: 403 "Forbidden"
>
> On the server side, I see this:
>
> 10.50.69.179 - - [04/Dec/2014:15:19:45 -0500]  "GET
> /bookshelf/organization-09088a3388934e9296242442edfbd52a/checksum-8d5acc7b2c778715c2263d11b0ab60ed?AWSAccessKeyId=249876d41aeba662b849413527a1370f906b5527&Expires=1417724019&Signature=6vDiSNhkV2WVAsrWEFYWyNPQTV8%3D
> HTTP/1.1" 403 "0.002" 206 "-" "Chef Client/11.12.8 (ruby-1.9.3-p484;
> ohai-7.0.4; x86_64-linux; +http://opscode.com)" "127.0.0.1:4321" "403"
> "0.002" "11.12.8" "algorithm=sha1;version=1.0;" "macine1"
> "2014-12-04T20:19:45Z" "2jmj7l5rSw0yVb/vlWAYkK/YBwk=" 1200
>
> The second run seems to be fine. Anyone see anythign similar?  How did you
> resolve?
>
> We are using ent server.
>
> TIA
> --
>
>
> Jennifer Fountain
> DevOPS