[chef] Fwd: Re: Re: Re: Chef Client .... not doing anything.

[Lamont Granquist < >]

On 12/5/14, 10:09 AM, Douglas Garstang wrote:
> From https://docs.getchef.com/release_notes.html
>
> "Splay and interval values are applied before the chef-client run The
> --interval and --splay values are applied before the chef-client run
> when using the chef-client and chef-solo executables."
>
> I would love to hear the justification for this? Why would someone
> want to wait 30 minutes for the chef-client to do it's FIRST run?

 Because if you run chef-client on the command line as part of a
bootstrapping process and you have the chef-client cookbook installed
which manages itself and starts a daemon process to manage chef-client
then you generally do not want the daemonized chef-client immediately
launching another chef-client converge while the current one is
executing.  This can cause issues with subsequent bootstrapping code
since the daemonized asynchronous chef-client process can get into
fights over things like yum locks.  So the first run of chef-client
should not be with interval or sleep options and will run immediately,
you should only use the sleeps with daemonized runs, and
sleeping-first-then-running causes issues with initial asynchronous
chef-client runs.