Chef, how to run a template that creates a init.d script before the service is created

Question

Below is my templete for nginx.

I am facing a catch 22. I need to install a init.d template. So I have a nginx erb template that I place in /etc/init.d/nginx.

I Even tried t place the code on top of the recipe. The recipe is dependent on the init.d file but its not exectued until it is too late and as a result I get this error:

STDERR: update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/nginx: file does not exist ---- End output of "bash"  "/tmp/chef-script20120330-26326-3ologp-0" ---- Ran "bash"  "/tmp/chef-script20120330-26326-3ologp-0" returned 1 [Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:22:15 +0000] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out [Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:22:15 +0000] ERROR: Sleeping for 60 seconds before trying again 

On the next run of chef client, things work because then the templete was created.

How do I execute a template immediately before I register the service resource for nginx? A quick fix is that I create a recipe that will run the template before nginx to install the template but that seems rather absurd.

This tempate needs to be installed before the service is registed.

template "nginx" do       path "/etc/init.d/nginx"       source "nginx.erb"       owner "root"       group "root"       mode "0755"     end 

Then register the server.

service "nginx" do       supports :restart => true, :start => true, :stop => true, :reload => true       action [ :enable, :start]     end        #################################### #Install Nginx #################################### #http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpLuaModule#Installation version = node[:nginx][:version] package "libpcre3" do   action :install end package "libpcre3-dev" do   action :install end package "libpcre++-dev" do   action :install end package "openssl" do   action :install end  template "nginx" do   path "/etc/init.d/nginx"   source "nginx.erb"   owner "root"   group "root"   mode "0755" end  #mkdir /var/log/nginx directory "/var/log/nginx" do   owner "root"   group "root"   mode "0755"   action :create   #not_if "test -f /etc/nginx/lock" end  remote_file "/tmp/nginx-#{version}.tar.gz" do   source "http://nginx.org/download/nginx-#{version}.tar.gz"   checksum node[:nginx][:checksum]   action :create_if_missing   notifies :run, "bash[install_nginx]", :immediately end   bash "install_nginx" do   user "root"   cwd "/tmp"   code <<-EOH     tar -xvf nginx-#{version}.tar.gz     cd nginx-#{version}     ./configure --with-http_stub_status_module       make -j2     make install     ln -s /usr/local/nginx/conf/ /etc/nginx     /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f nginx defaults   EOH   action :nothing   creates "/usr/sbin/nginx"   notifies :restart, "service[nginx]"   #not_if "test -f /etc/redis/lock" end   service "nginx" do   supports :restart => true, :start => true, :stop => true, :reload => true   action [ :enable, :start] end  #ln -s /usr/local/nginx/conf/ /etc/nginx #link "/usr/local/nginx/conf/" do #  to "/etc/nginx" #  link_type :hard #end  link "/usr/local/nginx/logs/access.log" do   to "/var/log/nginx/access.log" end  link "/usr/local/nginx/logs/error.log" do   to "/var/log/nginx/error.log" end  file "/etc/nginx/lock" do   owner "root"   group "root"   mode "0755"   action :create_if_missing end  template "nginx.conf" do   path "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf"   source "nginx.conf.erb"   owner "root"   group "root"   mode "0644"   #notifies :reload, "service[nginx]"   notifies :reload, resources(:service => "nginx"), :immediately end 

Thanks

Answer 1

You can set the action on the service to :nothing. Then have the template notify the service to enable. That way the template will be processed and then the service will be enabled:

service "nginx" do   supports :restart => true, :start => true, :stop => true, :reload => true   action :nothing end   template "nginx" do   path "/etc/init.d/nginx"   source "nginx.erb"   owner "root"   group "root"   mode "0755"   notifies :enable, "service[nginx]"   notifies :start, "service[nginx]" end 

Then the service will wait until the template has processed.