[chef] Re: How to change run time interval for chef-client which is set up as a service on Windows node?

[Jeff Blaine < >]

On 12/25/2014 8:48 AM, 

 
 wrote:
>     Hi guys,
> 
>     I have configured chef-client (windows platform) on my nodes to be
>     run as a service.
> 
>     Using chef-service-manager util from CMD.
> 
>     Now I would like to change run interval from 1800 seconds to 900 ro
>     any other value.
> 
>     I downloaded chef-client cookbook and created recipe as follow:
> 
>     node.default["chef_client"]["interval"] = '900'
> 
>     node.default["chef_client"]["splay"] = '100'
> 
>     I included chef-client cookbook in my cookbooks’s metadata.rb file
>     as follow:
> 
>     Depends ‘chef-client’
> 
>     Just for changing those values.
> 
>     But it doesn’t seem to take any affect.
> 
>     What I am doing wrong?

The 'depend' line is 1 step of 2. You need to also call the appropriate
chef-client cookbook recipe from your cookbook. Just a 'depend' in the
metadata of your cookbook does not trigger any action on the node.

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Jeff Blaine
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