Ok, that helped a lot. I read the documentation which is helpful, but the way you described it here made it easier to understand the use cases.
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Peter Meier <peter.me...@immerda.ch>wrote: > But what I am confused about is how is subscribe different? Doesn't that >> handle the same relationship of saying that you are "subscribing" (and/or) >> requiring something? >> > > there is subscribe/notify and require/before. The last 2 simply order > resources and the first two either listen on events or fire events. > > this means that if a service requires a file, puppet will only ensure that > the service is managed after the file. However if the service subscribes to > the file the service will restart itself when the file fires an event on > change. > > for further information have a look at > http://docs.reductivelabs.com/references/stable/metaparameter.html > > cheers pete > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
