Issue #5979 has been updated by Nigel Kersten.

Status changed from Rejected to Accepted
Assignee deleted (Nigel Kersten)

We actually need different semantics around cron compared to other resource 
types. I confused myself on the cron issues this morning.

It would be more Puppet-y to not manage the entries you don't specify, but it 
really leads to all sorts of undesirable behavior when modifying cron jobs.

The "unspecified" value for cron time fields should be '*'.
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Feature #5979: Cron resource should update missing time params as '*'
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5979

Author: Zach Leslie
Status: Accepted
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 
Affected Puppet version: 2.6.3
Keywords: 
Branch: 


The following cron resource

<pre>
  cron {
    "neat_cron01":
      command => "/some/where/neat",
      hour         => 2,
      minute     => "10";
  }
</pre>

does not update correctly when modified to remove the hour param, like so:


<pre>
  cron {
    "neat_cron01":
      command => "/some/where/neat",
      minute     => "10";
  }
</pre>

The hour field does not update with a '*' with the now missing hour paramater.  
My expectation is that all unspecified time delineations are marked as '*'.




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