This cookbook installs siege software

• Debian-family Linux Distributions
• RedHat-family Linux Distributions

• Depends on checkinstall cookbook
• When running on Rhel based systems, the node must include the yum-epel cookbook

• siege['install_method']

  • String. Defaults to source. Can be source or package
  • source downloads source codes and compile them, then executes checkinstall to install as package
  • package installs package from the existing repo via apt or yum, depending on the distribution

• siege['url']

  • String. Points to the siege source codes archive location

• siege['version']

  • String. Siege version to be compiled

• siege['checksum']

  • String. Source codes archive checksum

• siege['prefix_dir']

  • String. The path to prefix dir
  • Defaults to /

• siege['exec_prefix_dir']

  • String. The path to exec_prefix dir
  • Defaults to /usr

• siege['config_dir']

  • String. The path to configuration file dir
  • Defaults to /etc/siege

• siege['doc_dir']

  • String. The path to docs dir
  • Defaults to /usr/share/info

• siege['man_dir']

  • String. The path man files dir
  • Defaults to /usr/share/man

• siege['man_dir']

  • Array. The configuration options to be included during compilation

Just include siege in your node's run_list:

{
  "name":"my_node",
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[siege]"
  ]
}

• Author:: Rostyslav Fridman ([email protected])

Copyright 2014, Rostyslav Fridman

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