Chef

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.7.14
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.2
• Component/s: Providers
• Labels:

  None
• Environment:

  Debian 5.0.1

The Link resource creates a new symlink everytime chef-client is run. This is fine until I need to notify a service to restart when the link is created.

I can add a not_if to only run if the symlink exists however this doesn't account for when the destination for the symlink is different.

I have this work around:

link "/etc/pure-ftpd/auth/65unix" do
to "../conf/UnixAuthentication"
notifies :restart, resources(:service => "pure-ftpd")

1. If the symlink exists and it points to the "TO" file then don't do anything
   not_if do File.symlink?("#{name}") and File.readlink("#{name}") == to end
   end

• Assignee:

  AJ Christensen

  Reporter:

  Jim Tink

• Created:

  19/Nov/09 10:10 PM

  Updated:

  05/Jan/10 12:48 AM

  Resolved:

  04/Jan/10 6:08 AM