On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:52 PM, robbyt <rob...@robbyt.net> wrote: > Hi All, > > For some reason, I'm unable to manage cron resources on my CentOS5 > server: > > manifest: > > cron { "test": > command => '/bin/true', > user => 'root', > hour => '1', > } > > And when I try to run this via puppetmasterd: > > info: Caching catalog for ny-dev84.domain.com > err: Could not prefetch package provider 'yum': Execution of '/usr/ > local/bin/python /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/package/ > yumhelper.py' returned 1: <type 'exceptions.AttributeError'> > > info: Applying configuration version '1264214417' > notice: //crontab::puppet_runner/Cron[test]/ensure: created > "-":5: bad command >
this is a known issue with .25.3. It will be fixed in .25.4 > errors in crontab file, can't install. > notice: Finished catalog run in 3.69 seconds > > > There are two things here that confuse me. 1: what's the deal with the > 'could not prefetch package provider' and 2: why does "/bin/true" > result in "bad command"? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.