Issue #593 has been updated by Nigel Kersten. Status changed from Needs more information to Accepted Assignee deleted (Nigel Kersten) Keywords set to cronfixit
We have a bunch of cron issues. I'm going to tag all the open cron issues with 'cronfixit' and we'll try to address them all at once. ---------------------------------------- Bug #593: Puppet's cron type struggles with vixie-cron https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/593 Author: Peter Abrahamsen Status: Accepted Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: cron Target version: Statler Patch: None Affected Puppet version: 0.25.1 Keywords: cronfixit 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
