[chef] Re: Templates sends notification even when nothing changes

[Jesse Campbell < >]

What version of chef client are you running?

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:33, Arthur Kalmenson 
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 wrote:
> 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,
> --
> Arthur Kalmenson
>