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gather-logs for chef-client

Currently, chef provides:


chef-server-ctl gather-logs
chef-backend-ctl gather-logs
chef-automate gather-logs 


but no such item for chef-client


It would be beneficial to keep a level of congruency on these tools for ease of use and understanding.


This has been partially enacted here - https://github.com/chef/support-tools/tree/master/client-gather-logs


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  • Jun 21 2021
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  • Tim Smith commented
    1 Sep, 2021 04:49pm

    This is something we probably want to do in the long term, but not something we're going to work towards in the moment.

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