[chef] Templates sends notification even when nothing changes

[Arthur Kalmenson < >]

Hello everyone,

I have a template resource that notifies the service to restart. It looks as follows:

# apply configurations
template "#{install_dir}/package.json" do

  source "package.json.erb"
  owner hubot_user
  group hubot_group
  mode "0644"
  notifies :restart, "service[hubot]"
end

template "#{install_dir}/hubot-scripts.json" do

  source "hubot-scripts.json.erb"
  owner hubot_user
  group hubot_group
  mode "0644"
  notifies :restart, "service[hubot]"
end

It's my understanding that the notification will only get called when the template renders differently. However, even when nothing has changed, every time chef-client runs, the restart happens.

...

[Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:25:53 -0500] INFO: Processing template[/etc/init.d/hubot] action create (hubot::default line 93)

[Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:25:53 -0500] INFO: Processing service[hubot] action enable (hubot::default line 100)

[Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:25:53 -0500] INFO: Processing service[hubot] action start (hubot::default line 100)

[Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:25:53 -0500] INFO: Processing package[redis-server] action install (redis::package line 21)

[Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:25:53 -0500] INFO: Processing service[redis] action start (redis::package line 23)

[Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:25:53 -0500] INFO: Processing template[/etc/redis/redis.conf] action create (redis::package line 30)

[Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:25:53 -0500] INFO: template[/usr/local/hubot/package.json] sending restart action to service[hubot] (delayed)

[Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:25:53 -0500] INFO: Processing service[hubot] action restart (hubot::default line 100)

[Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:25:53 -0500] INFO: service[hubot] restarted

[Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:25:53 -0500] INFO: Chef Run complete in 2.929228 seconds

[Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:25:53 -0500] INFO: Running report handlers

[Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:25:53 -0500] INFO: Report handlers complete

Does anyone know why this is happening? Thank you in advance.

All the best,
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Arthur Kalmenson