seph wrote:
> Sorry, package["anacron"] is a bad example, since that package doesn't
> actually provide cron. But it behaves identically with
> package["cron"].
>
> The issue is as Teyo describes -- the failure occurs before the package
> resource is ever executed. I get the same error if the package doesn't
> exist, or isn't defined.
>
> seph
>
> Teyo Tyree <t...@reductivelabs.com> writes:
>
>
>> Delivered from mobile device.
>>
>> On Jul 22, 2009, at 8:40 AM, Nigel Kersten <nig...@google.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>> Is the anacron package even getting installed or is the failure
>> occuring before the package resource is executed?
>>
>>
>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> seph
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Nigel Kersten
>>> nig...@google.com
>>> System Administrator
>>> Google, Inc.
>>>
>>>
>>
>
> >
>
I do this and it works fine. People before I started used Ubuntu JeOS,
which is kind of a cool idea but it doesn't come with things most people
are accustomed to like logrotate or cron.
You need to require both the package and service in all your cron
resources. So, best thing to do is set it in your site.pp like Cron {
require => [ Package["cron"], Service["cron"] ] }.
--
Joe McDonagh
Operations Engineer
www.colonfail.com
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