How can I display the output of a Opscode Chef bash command in my console?

Question

I use Vagrant to spawn a standard \"precise32\" box and provision it with Chef so I can test my Node.js code on Linux when I work on a Windows machine. This works fine.

Answer 1

Kind of related... setting the log_location (-L) to a file prevents the chef logs (Chef::Log.info() or simply log) from going to standard out.

You can override this to print the full log information to stdout

chef-client -L /dev/stdout