Thanks, this would be helpful even for me as I try to learn more about Chef myself. What I like about the Bash script is that it is so simple. However, I realize that it's not real configuration management by any stretch, so I'm very open to merging in the chef recipe in time for the 1.0 project code that I'm trying to wrap up within ~2 weeks if we can work through the kinks and I can wrap my head around it. I really (really) appreciate your interest in converting the Bash script to a chef recipe. It's definitely something I would like to have done but would probably not have had time to fully understand and do myself.