# Chef-client 18 role not able to add

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-client-18-role-not-able-to-add/22166>\
**Category:** Chef Infra Client\
**Created:** [June 19, 2023, 5:25pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-client-18-role-not-able-to-add/22166 "2023-06-19T17:25:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![raj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c0e974/32.png) [@raj](https://discourse.chef.io/u/raj)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 5:25pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-client-18-role-not-able-to-add/22166/1 "2023-06-19T17:25:48Z")

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Hi all,

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I am planning to go for chef client 18 and as part of the earlier code i can see the usage of knife command. But chef-client 18 does not have knife so i had planned this way

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I have used the below command at boot time

chef-client -j /tmp/boot.json -c /etc/chef/client.rb

boot.json had the runlist

* * *

run\_list: role[firstboot]

Assume i have 10 cookbooks when i ran them automated way i can see cookboooks fail due to below forbidden error 403.

I was under assumption and removed that cookbook from the role and executed it. again the same error.

But when i tried to run them on command prompt it was sucessfull(same above command).

Error is as below  
Net::HTTPServerException: cookbook\_file[carXXXXX.zip] {cookbook name:: line 7) had an error: HTTPServerException: 403 "forbidden".

Can any one suggest me how to over come this error.

Thanks

raj.