Issue #1672 has been updated by martin.
Some further digging revealed that the cause is when it calls "crontab -l" it
fails, and since the below code assumes an error mean that the crontab is
empty, the original contents get overwritten.
<pre>
# SunOS has completely different cron commands; this class implements
# its versions.
newfiletype(:suntab) do
# Read a specific @path's cron tab.
def read
begin
output = Puppet::Util.execute(%w{crontab -l}, :uid => @path)
return "" if output.include?("can't open your crontab")
return output
rescue
# If there's a failure, treat it like an empty file.
return ""
end
end
</pre>
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Bug #1672: crontab update craps out in zones on Solaris 10
http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/show/1672
Author: martin
Status: Accepted
Priority: High
Assigned to: community
Category: cron
Target version: unplanned
Complexity: Unknown
Affected version: 0.24.5
Keywords:
I'm using the crontab type to add an entry, and the update craps out with the
following error:
<pre>
debug: Executing 'crontab /tmp/puppet20081021-25388-z3vqav-0'
err: Could not apply complete catalog: Could not write crontab for root: No
child processes
</pre>
and the major problem is that it truncates the crontab file. If it fails it
should revert it back to the original contents instead of abandoning it in an
unknown state or at least give you a pointer to where the original crontab
contents can be found.
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