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############## This is the successful knife ssl check command:

ubuntu@ip-10-202-90-125:~$ sudo /opt/chef/bin/knife ssl check https://chef.example.com
Connecting to host chef.example.com:443
Successfully verified certificates from `chef.example.com’

############## This is the error:

[2015-06-24T00:06:18+00:00] ERROR: SSL Validation failure connecting to host: chef.example.com - SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed

                                             Running handlers:
                                             [2015-06-24T00:06:18+00:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
                                             Running handlers complete
                                             [2015-06-24T00:06:18+00:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
                                             [2015-06-24T00:06:18+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
                                             Chef Client failed. 18 resources updated in 118.828748189 seconds
                                             [2015-06-24T00:06:18+00:00] ERROR: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed
                                             [2015-06-24T00:06:18+00:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ChildConvergeError: Chef run process exited unsuccessfully (exit code 1)
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