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I'd like to declare a resource that I want to run multiple times on notification and only on notification. How can I prevent the resource to run on its own after it is declared?

Is there some way to check if there is a notification present, so I can run something like "only_if :notified"?

TheCleaner
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Victor Hahn
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2 Answers2

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Here is an example where my execute resource is only converged when my directory resource converges:

directory '/opt/foo' do
  action :create
  notifies :run, 'execute[custom command]', :immediately
end

execute 'custom command' do
  command 'echo foo'
  action :nothing
end

See https://docs.chef.io/chef/resources.html#notifications for more examples.

StephenKing
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tbizzle
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Use action :nothing during declaration.

StephenKing
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