#chef

I must be missing something completely obvious but I’m declaring a git resource as “git /path/to/where/I/want” and I’m ending up with the contents of the clone waaay down under /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/mycookbook/templates/default/want/ - what I am missing?

note the matching basename between the resource name and the actual directory

how long does a chef resource have to time out and how can I increase that time?

I'm working on a recipe where I want to check out a repo from git and then iterate over files in a subdirectory, calling a LWRP for each one. I'm currently using Dir.entries to list the files, but that doesn't work because of compile time/run time issues. If I put Dir.entries outside of a ruby_block it doesn't work because the files aren't checked out. If I put it inside a ruby_block I get errors because the LWRPs are undefined in that scope.

How can I list and iterate over files in a directory in a recipe at run time?

CVTJNII: make a library with a method that does it and reference the library in your recipe

riceandbeans, Can I call a LWRP within the library method?

I don't know

CVTJNII: did your git checkout acutally make it out of the cookbook cache directory?

Yea, the checkout worked. This is a compile time/run time problem. It looks like to call a LWRP inside a ruby block you need to use pure ruby, I think this method will work: http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/arc/chef/2013-12...

Ah ha “git[] checkout destination /var/named/db already exists or is a non-empty directory”

Can anyone throw me a bone on how to use the 12.4 Chef::Log::WinEvt.new log_location attribute?

all I get is: +log_location #<Chef::Log::WinEvt:0x4709088>