Jira (PUP-1239) file resource can't be used to monitor file changes recursively

[Daniel Dreier (JIRA)]

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Daniel Dreier commented on an issue   Re: file resource can't be used to monitor file changes recursively According to [Nigel](http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5414#note-17) 3 years back, All I’m saying is that the feedback I’ve gotten from developers is that this wasn’t ever intended behavior. Whether it should or shouldn’t have is undefined I just reproduced the issue / absence of feature on 3.4.2 and 2.7.25 on Centos 6.4. It's not clear to me whether this should be a bug or feature request, but if it's a feature request then the fact that the recursive functionality doesn't work on standalone should probably trigger some sort of warning. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-1239 file resource can't be used to monitor file changes recursively for a long time i have used puppet to monitor a directory recursively for file changes but since upgrading to 2.6 that doesn't appear to work. {noformat} # file_test.pp file { "/tmp/file_test":   ensure => directory,   recurse => true,   checksum => mtime,   mode => 644,   notify => Exec["tar"]; } exec { "/bin/tar -cf - /tmp/file_t... 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.