Usually cron problems like this are because of the way cron shrinks your $PATH
environment variable. Read "man 5 crontab" and "man 8 cron", or find them on
the web. Or use the full path to your puppet executable.
Why don't you have puppet set up the cron job for you? That way puppet will
install its own cron job on the first (manual, setup) run and will work
automatically thereafter. Plus if you want to change your run time later, you
need only change your central manifest.
cron { 'run puppet':
command => "/usr/bin/puppet agent --no-daemonize --onetime",
user => 'root',
weekday => 2,
hour => 1,
minute => fqdn_rand(59),
}
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:43:16PM -0700, thinkwell wrote:
> I only need to run puppet weekly, so I made this little shell script and
> put in the the /etc/cron.weekly folder, but it's not running. If I run the
> script manually, it works just fine. Why not from cron?
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> #################################
> # Cron job managed by Puppet
> #################################
>
> # Randomize 15 minutes to avoid overloading server
> sleep $((RANDOM % 900))
> exec puppet agent --no-daemonize --onetime
>
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