Re: Restart on if something changed?

[Luis Cerezo]

Paul,

What I did was to use DefineClasses in the editfiles section. this sets 
the class only if the file is edited..

eg..

linux::
                        { /etc/ssh/sshd_config
                        ReplaceAll "#Banner /some/path" With "Banner 
/etc/issue"
                        DefineClasses  "HUPsshd"
                        }
       shellcommands:

               linux.HUPsshd::

                       "/sbin/service sshd restart"    useshell=false

this would only run the shellcommands if the class is defined, and that 
only happens if the file is edited. you could then add the 
time.class.hup doo-hickie and all should be well..

hth.

-luis


PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:

> How can I tell a process to restart only if a certain file has changed?
>
> We just changed the way our login banners are supposed to occur.
> Before, they appeared prior to login, so I could just use the 
> sshd_config file and specify an banner in the file.  Now, I need 
> to present the banner after login.  In order to do this, I need to 
> restart sshd.  But, I don't want to restart sshd during the 
> middle of the day or when the sshd_config file hasn't changed.
>
> Paul
>
>
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