Bug#529224: Cron job removal

2010-08-02 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Jayen writes: > The cron job was not added by puppet, but was around before we started > using puppet. We're trying to clean up some of the old cron jobs > using puppet. That won't work with puppet's cron provider, unfortunately. It will only remove cron jobs it identifies as one of its own. T

Bug#529224: Cron job removal

2010-08-01 Thread Jayen
The cron job was not added by puppet, but was around before we started using puppet. We're trying to clean up some of the old cron jobs using puppet. The crontab looks like: # HEADER: This file was autogenerated at Thu Oct 02 17:39:56 +1000 2008 by puppet. # HEADER: While it can still be managed

Bug#529224: Cron job removal

2010-07-31 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Do you have a copy of the crontab, including comments? The puppet cron provider uses comments to identify the presence of the cron jobs it handles. Was this cron job created by puppet, or by someone/something else? Did someone edit the crontab afterwards? -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen