Issue #7165 has been updated by John Florian.

Jo Rhett wrote:

> What I think you're asking for is "if the service hasn't started yet, update 
> the file first and then start the service".

That is indeed the behavior that I desire out of puppet.  As is, I keep having 
to create simple helper scripts (with bash, python, etc.) because puppet simply 
is not giving me enough control.  Same goes for "require" which behaves more 
like the opposite of "before" than any sort of dependency control.  That 
spreads the state-management logic around and generally makes a mess.
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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.



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