What I have done with all my service resources is I declared the start,
stop, restart and status parameters. I've never had a problem with
subscriptions and notifications.
On Thursday, July 19, 2012 5:29:53 AM UTC-4, Praveen Shivashankar wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am managing the config files of a service through puppet. This config
> file is being created through 2 separate modules and concatenated
> together. I am trying to modify the manifest in the module that installs
> the service so that whenever this config file changes (when the portion
> that comes from the 2nd module is concatenated to it), the service should
> restart. I tried using the notify/subscribe parameter here, but the
> service does not restart even though the content of the file gets changed.
>
> However, if I use the notify parameter on the second module by associating
> it with the service created by the first module, the service gets
> restarted. I DO NOT want to do this way because it creates a dependency
> between these two modules which otherwise have been exclusive of one
> another. Is there some way around this? The change in the config file
> content is happening only at the portion that is being modified by the
> second module. But still, since I have used a subscribe parameter on the
> config, I believe that irrespective of which part of the file gets
> modified, the service must restart.
>
> Does anybody have any idea if my understanding is correct or a way to work
> around this? Any help would be highly appreciated!!!
>
>
> service {"DE_${service_name}":
> enable => true,
> ensure => true,
> hasrestart => true,
> hasstatus => true,
> subscribe =>
> File["${service_base_config_dir}/serverConfig.properties"]
> }
>
>
>
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