Issue #7542 has been reported by Robin Powell.
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Bug #7542: Cron has too many fields
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7542
Author: Robin Powell
Status: Unreviewed
Priority: Normal
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Affected Puppet version: 2.6.4
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On some of my CentOS 5.5 machines, but not others, puppet is trying to install
cron entries with too many fields. This means puppet cannot succeed on these
hosts. I would be very happy to help debug this, but I really don't know what
information to give. The only way I even figured out the problem was strace.
Some details:
[root@beta01 /]# sudo puppetd -tv
info: Caching catalog for beta01.c44031.blueboxgrid.com
info: /Stage[main]/Ruby/Tidy[/etc/profile.d/rvm.sh]: File does not exist
info: Applying configuration version '1305353595'
notice: /Stage[main]/Puppet/Cron[puppet run cron]/ensure: created
"-":6: bad hour
errors in crontab file, can't install.
Which is odd. They're both running centos packages for puppet 0.25.5-1.el5
I couldn't figure it out, so I ran strace, and found this:
[pid 1872] write(3, "# HEADER: This file was autogenerated at Fri May 13
22:50:02 -0700 2011 by puppet.\n# HEADER: While it can
+still be managed manually, it is definitely not recommended.\n# HEADER: Note
particularly that the comments starting with 'Puppet
+Name' should\n# HEADER: not be deleted, as doing so could cause duplicate cron
jobs.\n# Puppet Name: puppet run cron\n* 1 1 * * *
+foo\n", 366) = 366
Which is equivalent to:
# HEADER: This file was autogenerated at Fri May 13 22:50:02 -0700 2011 by
puppet.
# HEADER: While it can still be managed manually, it is definitely not
recommended.
# HEADER: Note particularly that the comments starting with 'Puppet Name' should
# HEADER: not be deleted, as doing so could cause duplicate cron jobs.
# Puppet Name: puppet run cron
* 1 1 * * * foo
That's one too many fields.
Not that it should matter, but the cron was *very* simple by that
time:
cron { 'puppet run cron':
command => "foo",
user => root,
hour => 1,
minute => 1,
}
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