Puppet users - Oct 2008 - problems with triggering with notify

Hi, I''m new to puppet.
here''s my config:

define touchfile {
 exec { "/usr/bin/touch $title": }
}

file { "/etc/host.conf":
 notify => touchfile["/var/tmp/touchfile.txt"],
}

What I expect: wenn I modify my host.conf, the touchfile.txt is
touched. But it doesn''t work that way. What I get is:

Oct 31 11:26:30 bernd-vm-puppetclient puppetd[749]: Configuration
could not be instantiated: Could not find dependent Touchfile[/var/tmp/
touchfile.txt] for File[/etc/host.conf] at /etc/puppet/manifests/
site.pp:55; using cached catalog

any ideas?
greetings,
Bernd

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2008/10/31 kuhlen@gmx.net <kuhlen@gmx.net>:
>
> Hi, I''m new to puppet.
> here''s my config:
>
> define touchfile {
>  exec { "/usr/bin/touch $title": }
> }
>
> file { "/etc/host.conf":
>  notify => touchfile["/var/tmp/touchfile.txt"],
> }
>

so I think you''re using defines like functions, which they
aren''t.  A
define is just a way to group multiple resources together as a single
resource.  If you want to use the resource
touchfile["/var/tmp/touchfile.txt"], you need to actually create it:


touchfile { "/var/tmp/touchfile.txt": }


In which case puppet is going to run that exec regardless if its been
notified or not.  You''ll probably want to throw a ''refreshonly
=>
true'' on the exec...


Also, you should use ''notify =>
Touchfile["/var/tmp/touchfile.txt"]''..


.r''

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