On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Felix Frank <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > we're running 0.25.5 on SLES11 SP1 machines and are now noticing lots of > clutter in root's crontab. The packages are rolled from the > suse-specfile as distributed in the puppet tarball. > > SUSE sees fit to drop a warning comment into /var/spool/cron/tabs/<user> > that state this: > > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > # (- installed on Thu Oct 28 13:36:12 2010) > # (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004/01/23 18:56:42 vixie > Exp $) > > When using crontab -e, this is hidden from the user (i.e. not in the > editable crontab). > > Whenever puppet makes a change, it submits this comment as new content > somehow though, and it all piles up in the crontab. > > Has anyone seen this and can give a hint how to keep this from > happening? From looking at OpenSUSE source packages, it doesn't seem > like there is a specific patch to make cron work differently in SUSE > environments.
Is this the same as this issue Felix? https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/593 I'm particularly interested in whether Alan Barrett's summary at #12 accurately describes your issue. We have a cluster of issues around the cron provider as you can see from this saved search: https://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/issues?query_id=98 I'd say we're going to try and address all of them in a release, we just haven't worked out exactly what that is. > > Thanks, > Felix > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" 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-users?hl=en. > > -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs http://www.puppetlabs.com Twitter: @nigelkersten -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" 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-users?hl=en.
