Puppet users - Jan 2009 - pass "notify" in to a definition

I have created a define that needs to be able to notify a Service.
Everything I''ve read seems to indicate that the resources inside the
define should inherit any metaparameters passed into the define.

See: 
http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/c28aa647e774cc84/0fd4387d029e7e38

I''ve stripped my definition down to the bare minimum and still
can''t
get this to work:

define cfile( $source, $owner = root, $group = root, $mode = 0444) {
    file { $name:
        owner   => $owner,
        group   => $group,
        source  => $source,
        mode   => $mode,
    }
}

I call it like so:

    cfile {"/etc/samhain/samhainrc":
        source  => "puppet:///samhain/samhainrc",
        notify  => Service["samhain"],
        require => Package["samhain"],
    }

When the file changes, the service is not notified.  If I turn this
into a File resource by just deleting the single "c" at the start of
the call, everything works as expected.

What am I screwing up?

-Ben

I''m running Puppet version 0.24.4 on Ubuntu 8.10.

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On Jan 16, 2009, at 12:24 AM, Ben Beuchler wrote:
>
> I have created a define that needs to be able to notify a Service.
> Everything I''ve read seems to indicate that the resources inside
the
> define should inherit any metaparameters passed into the define.
>
> See: 
http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/c28aa647e774cc84/0fd4387d029e7e38
>
> I''ve stripped my definition down to the bare minimum and still
can''t
> get this to work:
>
> define cfile( $source, $owner = root, $group = root, $mode = 0444) {
>    file { $name:
>        owner   => $owner,
>        group   => $group,
>        source  => $source,
>        mode   => $mode,
>    }
> }
>
> I call it like so:
>
>    cfile {"/etc/samhain/samhainrc":
>        source  => "puppet:///samhain/samhainrc",
>        notify  => Service["samhain"],
>        require => Package["samhain"],
>    }
>
> When the file changes, the service is not notified.  If I turn this
> into a File resource by just deleting the single "c" at the start
of
> the call, everything works as expected.
>
> What am I screwing up?
This actually all looks right.  If you look at the cached catalog, can  
you verify that the contained file resource is actually receiving the  
''notify'' parameter?

Note that it can be easier to test these things using ''exec''
and
''notify'' resources -- you don''t have to worry about
changing files or
having services.

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