infochimps/cluster_chef — Issue #76: knife cluster kick should launch chef-client directly if service is not running
Author: mrflip
Created: 2011-11-30 19:46:11+00:00
State: open

currently `knife cluster kick` ssh's in and sends a -QUIT signal to the service, causing it to run immediately. If the service isn't running, however, it causes an opaque error message lost in the deluge of log lines that ensue from the other clients.

kcik should first do a `service chef-client status` command, and if the service is not running it should just run chef-client directly.