[#4092] Changed notify message to defined instead of changed

Notify was returning a nil current value, rather than :absent,
which caused puppet to think the message had been changed from
blank to its new value, rather than defined as that value.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/puppet/type/notify.rb b/lib/puppet/type/notify.rb
index a8ac49be4..bbb48d67b 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/type/notify.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/type/notify.rb
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ module Puppet
             end
 
             def retrieve
-                return
+                return :absent
             end
 
             def insync?(is)