Chef-client cookbook problem: log_location not set properly?

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I’m in the midst of migrating to Opscode’s chef-client cookbook.
Before I roll it out across ~70 systems I thought it prudent to test
it with chef-solo in a VM first. I have the following as JSON
attributes:

{
“run_list”: [ “recipe[chef-client::config]”, “recipe[chef-client]” ],
“chef_client”: {
“server_url”: “http://bogus.example.com:4000”,
“environment”: “dev”,
“init_style”: “init”
}
}

The generated client.rb is sensible except for one line:

log_location #IO:0x2b06082b0ac8

I don’t know enough Ruby to understand the case statement in the
recipe involving testing to see if this attribute is a String, IO,
etc. Can someone help me out and let me know how to fix this?

  • Julian

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Hrm - that's odd. One imagines that's an artifact of having the STDOUT
constant turned in to a string?

Adam

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Julian C. Dunn lists@aquezada.com wrote:

I'm in the midst of migrating to Opscode's chef-client cookbook.
Before I roll it out across ~70 systems I thought it prudent to test
it with chef-solo in a VM first. I have the following as JSON
attributes:

{
"run_list": [ "recipe[chef-client::config]", "recipe[chef-client]" ],
"chef_client": {
"server_url": "http://bogus.example.com:4000",
"environment": "dev",
"init_style": "init"
}
}

The generated client.rb is sensible except for one line:

log_location #IO:0x2b06082b0ac8

I don't know enough Ruby to understand the case statement in the
recipe involving testing to see if this attribute is a String, IO,
etc. Can someone help me out and let me know how to fix this?

  • Julian

--
Julian C. Dunn jdunn@aquezada.com
Systems Engineer, Project Leader, Writer
WWW: www.juliandunn.net
Phone: (347) 986-0308
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/julian

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Opscode, Inc.
Adam Jacob, Chief Customer Officer
T: (206) 619-7151 E: adam@opscode.com

3

Presumably... should I file a bug?

  • Julian

On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Adam Jacob adam@opscode.com wrote:

Hrm - that's odd. One imagines that's an artifact of having the STDOUT
constant turned in to a string?

Adam

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Julian C. Dunn lists@aquezada.com wrote:

I'm in the midst of migrating to Opscode's chef-client cookbook.
Before I roll it out across ~70 systems I thought it prudent to test
it with chef-solo in a VM first. I have the following as JSON
attributes:

{
"run_list": [ "recipe[chef-client::config]", "recipe[chef-client]" ],
"chef_client": {
"server_url": "http://bogus.example.com:4000",
"environment": "dev",
"init_style": "init"
}
}

The generated client.rb is sensible except for one line:

log_location #IO:0x2b06082b0ac8

I don't know enough Ruby to understand the case statement in the
recipe involving testing to see if this attribute is a String, IO,
etc. Can someone help me out and let me know how to fix this?

  • Julian

--
Julian C. Dunn jdunn@aquezada.com
Systems Engineer, Project Leader, Writer
WWW: www.juliandunn.net
Phone: (347) 986-0308
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/julian

--
Opscode, Inc.
Adam Jacob, Chief Customer Officer
T: (206) 619-7151 E: adam@opscode.com