RE: Conditional restart

[Alexander Mattausch]

We had this question yesterday...


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> On Behalf Of Manon Goo
> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 9:46 PM
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> Subject: Conditional restart
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> Is there an solution to condition the restart of a service ? 
> I would like 
> to copy (and edit) the syslog.conf and postfix config from a 
> central host 
> an only restart syslog and config if syslogd.conf changes. I 
> would only 
> like to restart postfix if main.cf or master.cf is changed

Here is the answer:

Paul Heinlein schrieb:

>Yeah, it's pretty simple. Here's how I handle an analogous situation
>with ntp configuration updates on our Red Hat Linux clients. When the 
>config is updates, I define a class called 'restartntp,' which is 
>merely calls Red Hat's init script in restart mode.
>
>  copy:
>    linux.redhat.ntp_pclient::
>      $(master_configs)/ntp/ntp.conf.linux
>      server=$(policyhost) dest=/etc/ntp.conf
>      m=444 o=root g=root type=sum define=restartntp
>
>  shellcommands:
>    linux.redhat.restartntp::
>      "/etc/init.d/ntpd restart"
>
and don't forget
      control:
          AddInstallable = ( restartntp )

Regards,
Alex