Issue #7165 has been updated by Jo Rhett.
It would appear that the service resource isn't checked to see if its running until the notify is parsed, which is why the ordering happened as listed. You could enforce this ordering by adding "require => Service['nginx']" to the file stanza, which would create start service replace file restart service What I think you're asking for is "if the service hasn't started yet, update the file first and then start the service". I'm trying to think of a reason this couldn't be the default behavior in case of a Notify to an unstarted service and I can't think of one. If there are examples of when this would not be desirable then, then it would need explicit syntax. (not speaking for anyone besides myself) ---------------------------------------- Bug #7165: services restarted unnecessarily https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7165 Author: John Florian Status: Needs Decision Priority: Normal Assignee: Nigel Kersten Category: service Target version: Affected Puppet version: 0.25.5 Keywords: Branch: Given the following conditions: 1. service 'S' is currently disabled/stopped 1. config file 'F' for service 'S' is currently in state 'A' 1. puppet class 'C' calls for 'S' to be enabled/running and 'F' to be in state 'B' When puppet runs, the following currently occurs: <pre> notice: //C/File[F]/content: content changed '{md5}-A' to '{md5}-B' info: //C/File[F]: Scheduling refresh of Service[S] notice: //C/Service[S]/ensure: ensure changed 'stopped' to 'running' notice: //C/Service[S]: Triggering 'refresh' from 1 dependencies </pre> Thus, puppet sees the service is to be running and makes it so. Then it realizes that a refresh is needed and so restarts the service. The restart is unnecessary in this case. Depending on the particular service, this could be quite undesirable. Puppet should be able to recognize this case and simply start the service just once. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
