[chef] remote_directory & Chef Client 10.16.2

["Jason J. W. Williams" < >]

Hi Guys,

After upgrading a 0.10.8 client to 10.16.2, a cookbook we have that uses remote_directory now is triggering a reload of Nagios on every Chef run (only change is the Chef client version). 

Here is the configuration directive:

remote_directory node[:nagios][:manual_define_dir] do

  source "mandefine.d"

  files_backup 0

  files_owner "root"

  files_group "root"

  files_mode "0644"

  owner "root"

  group "root"

  mode "0775"

  notifies :reload, "service[nagios3]"

end

And the applicable output from Chef Client -l debug:

Processing remote_directory[/etc/nagios3/mandefine.d/] action create (nagios-server::default line 140)

Processing cookbook_file[/etc/nagios3/mandefine.d/zzz.d/aaa_vips.cfg] action create (dynamically defined)

Processing cookbook_file[/etc/nagios3/mandefine.d/yyy.d/aaa_vips.cfg] action create (dynamically defined)

Processing cookbook_file[/etc/nagios3/mandefine.d/xxx.d/www_vips.cfg] action create (dynamically defined)

Processing cookbook_file[/etc/nagios3/mandefine.d/xxx.d/load_balancers.cfg] action create (dynamically defined)

Processing cookbook_file[/etc/nagios3/mandefine.d/all.d/vvv_network.cfg] action create (dynamically defined)

Processing cookbook_file[/etc/nagios3/mandefine.d/all.d/zzz_misc.cfg] action create (dynamically defined)

Processing cookbook_file[/etc/nagios3/mandefine.d/all.d/universal_network.cfg] action create (dynamically defined)

Processing cookbook_file[/etc/nagios3/mandefine.d/all.d/yyy_general.cfg] action create (dynamically defined)

Processing cookbook_file[/etc/nagios3/mandefine.d/all.d/misc.cfg] action create (dynamically defined)

Processing cookbook_file[/etc/nagios3/mandefine.d/all.d/xxx_network.cfg] action create (dynamically defined)

...

remote_directory[/etc/nagios3/mandefine.d/] sending reload action to service[nagios3] (delayed)

Any ideas are greatly appreciated.

-J