On Jan 22, 10:45 pm, Todd Zullinger <t...@pobox.com> wrote:
> robbyt wrote:
> > 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
> > 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"?
>
> The fact that the error points at /usr/local/bin/python makes me
> wonder if you've got some non-packaged version of python in your path.
>
> The cron error sounds like the problem with 0.25.3, though I can't
> recall if that's the output that bug causes or not. What version of
> puppet are you running? If you're using EPEL packages of 0.25.x from
> epel-testing, then update, as we have pushed 0.25.3 packages with the
> problematic cron changes reverted.
>
Hi Todd,
You are correct 2x :)
There is a custom python that I didn't catch in /usr/local/bin. I just
upgraded the epel testing package that you suggested and the cron
problem has gone away! Thank you for your help!
Dan:
Thanks! looking forward to 0.25.4 :)
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