[chef] Re: Re: Re: "can't convert Logger::Syslog into String" when configuring syslog

[William Jimenez < >]

Thanks guys. I tried Krzysztof's 1st example from the gist and that seems to work. Jeff, I did see that cookbook earlier but I was trying to minimize dependencies at the moment. 

-William

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Julian C. Dunn < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

On Mon, 8 Dec 2014, Jeff Blaine wrote:

On 12/8/2014 2:54 PM, William Jimenez wrote:

Hello
I'm trying to configure chef-client to log to syslog, as mentioned
here: https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/chef-client#configuration-includes,
however when I use that config I get the following error:

[2014-12-08T19:43:54+00:00] FATAL: Failed to open or create log file at #
<Logger::Syslog:0x00000002ee6e50>: TypeError (can't convert
Logger::Syslog into String)
[2014-12-08T19:43:54+00:00] FATAL: Aborting due to invalid
'log_location' configuration

I'm wondering what environments this works on. I'm running chef
client 11.16.4.

William, maybe try this:

https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/chef-client_syslog

My last comment at this epic blog post of mine is at the top:

"UPDATE: THE FOLLOWING BLOG POST IS KEPT FOR HISTORICAL PURPOSES ONLY.
The solution at the end of the post no longer works and I give up
chasing this elusive dream. Readers may want to look into this instead:
https://supermarket.getchef.com/cookbooks/chef-client_syslog"

I tried Scott Hain's configuration, and it works on Chef Client 12:

  require 'syslog-logger'
  Chef::Log.use_log_devices( [ Logger::Syslog.new("chef-client", Syslog::LOG_LOCAL7) ] )

Put that in /etc/chef/client.rb (after installing the syslog-logger gem into Chef's Ruby).

- Julian

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