Trying again, less typos: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#exec scroll down to the "refreshonly" parameter and compare it to your code.
“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Gardner" <phil.gardne...@gmail.com> To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 1:22:44 PM Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Templates modified on puppetmaster but clients not seeing changes nodes.pp: node /^testserver-.*/ { $centos_version = '6.4' $updates_enabled = '1' include yum } -- modules/yum/manifests/init.pp: class yum { file { 'CentOS-Base.repo': mode => '0644', owner => 'root', group => 'root', path => '/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo', content => template('yum/CentOS-Base.repo.erb'), notify => Exec['clean'], } exec { 'clean': command => 'yum clean all', path => '/usr/bin/', --> subscribe => File["/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo"], <--- You need to tell it what file to watch ! refreshonly => true, } } -- modules/yum/templates/CentOS-Base.repo.erb: [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base #mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ baseurl=http://yumrepo.<%= @datacenter %>.example.net/repos/centos/<%= centos_version %>/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 #released updates [updates] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates #mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ baseurl=http://yumrepo2.<%= @datacenter %>.example.net/repos/centos/<%= centos_version %>/updates/$basearch/ enabled=<%= updates_enabled -%> gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.