Issue #593 has been updated by Alan Barrett.
What's happening here is that both puppet and cron want their special comments to be at the top of the file. If puppet finds that its special comment is somewhere in the file but not at the top, then it moves the comment to the top. If cron finds that its special comment is not at the top of the file, then it inserts a new comment at the top, regardless of whether or not the comment already existed elsewhere in the file. Interaction between these two processes causes multiple copies of cron's special comment to appear. ---------------------------------------- Bug #593: Puppet's cron type struggles with vixie-cron https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/593 Author: Peter Abrahamsen Status: Needs more information Priority: Normal Assignee: Nigel Kersten Category: cron Target version: Statler Patch: None Affected Puppet version: 0.25.1 Keywords: Branch: After making a few changes to my cron job in my manifest, my crontab begins to look like: <pre> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (- installed on Thu Apr 12 12:16:01 2007) # (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004/01/23 18:56:42 vixie Exp $) # HEADER This file was autogenerated at Thu Apr 12 12:16:01 -0700 2007 by puppet. # HEADER While it can still be managed manually, it is definitely notrecommended. # HEADER Note particularly that the comments starting with 'Puppet Name' should # HEADER not be deleted, as doing so could cause duplicate cron jobs. # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (- installed on Wed Apr 11 16:42:40 2007) # (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004/01/23 18:56:42 vixie Exp $) # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (- installed on Tue Apr 10 13:49:45 2007) # (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004/01/23 18:56:42 vixie Exp $) # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (- installed on Thu Apr 5 17:36:42 2007) # (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004/01/23 18:56:42 vixie Exp $) # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.XXXXWxMPKB installed on Thu Apr 5 17:08:07 2007) # (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004/01/23 18:56:42 vixie Exp $) # Puppet Name: websync */10 * * * * <snip> </pre> If puppet would put its notice just before the first job it manages, I think it would avoid this problem. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-b...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
