Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: how do you restart a process only after .conf update?
Author: Sal
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19969,19969#msg-19969
We manage changes to several .conf files via cfengine and want to restart the
daemon only after each new .conf file is pushed but my current logic seems to
restart the daemon each time cfengine runs.
My syntax within the bundle is:
files:
any.!ntp_servers::
"$(ntp_conf_dest)"
perms => system("644"),
copy_from =>
mycopy("$(master_etc)/ntp/$(ntp_conf_source)","$(p_server)"),
action => immediate;
processes:
"$(ntp_conf_dest)" restart_class => "start_ntpd";
commands:
start_ntpd::
"/etc/init.d/ntpd restart";
Since cf-execd is set to run every 20 minutes, ntpd gets restarted every 20
minutes. What am I missing? It looks like the logic is now that if the file
$(ntp_conf_dest) exists then restart ntpd. I was hoping this method would only
run when the file was transferred. Should I not be using restart_class? Should
I instead use some logic that checks for a change in the .conf file and that
triggers the restart?
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