On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:35 AM, seph<s...@directionless.org> wrote:
>
> I'd like to use puppet to manage some cron jobs. Unfortunately, I do not
> have cron installed on my servers. So, I'd like to use puppet to install
> cron. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work. Puppet complains about
> the lack of provider before it runs down the dependencies. For example,
> this ought complain about the lack of package, or install it:
>
> r...@puppet-test:~# cat /var/tmp/puppet-cron.pp
> package{ "anacron":
> ensure => "latest",
> }
> cron {"puppet cron test":
> command => "echo test",
> hour => 0,
> user => "root",
> require => Package["anacron"],
> }
>
>
> r...@puppet-test:~# puppet /var/tmp/puppet-cron.pp
> sh: Syntax error: Bad fd number
> sh: Syntax error: Bad fd number
> err: Could not create puppet cron test: Could not find a default
> provider for cron
> Could not find a default provider for cron
It looks to me like the crontab provider requires that the command
'crontab' exists, and the anacron pacakge I'm looking at doesn't
supply that.
You should be fine if you install crontab as well, otherwise I think
we'll need an anacron provider.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> seph
>
> >
>
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Nigel Kersten
nig...@google.com
System Administrator
Google, Inc.
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