Jira (PUP-1615) allow mode changes on files without restarting the service.

[Jo Rhett (JIRA)]

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Jo Rhett commented on an issue   Re: allow mode changes on files without restarting the service. This was reported by me, I'd appreciate the reporter being fixed. There was only one real comment on the Redmine issue, quoted here below: UPDATED BY ERIC SORENSON OVER 1 YEAR AGO Status changed from Unreviewed to Needs Decision Assignee set to Randall Hansen Randall — There was a giant puppet-users discussion related to this: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/puppet-users/hMOTL-LtVV4/discussion Interested to hear if you think (a) it’s something to spend engineering time on and (b) if so, whether there’s a way to expose the functionality with a reasonable UX. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-1615 allow mode changes on files without restarting the service. I managed to have a booboo tonight by restarting a process which really shouldn't be. What I ran into was that a mode change caused subscribe to fire and the process to restart. Also given that "replace" only affects file contents, this means that you can never, ever change the mode of a file for new installs only, either. So it's always a risk of restar... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.