Well, I tried adding the full command path, and set the cron job to cron.hourly but that didn't work. :-(
The reason I used a cron job (managed by Puppet as a file) was so that anacron would run the job on reboot if the system was down at 4:00 AM Sunday. I only need once-a-week running, but I do want to make sure each week gets its run, whether the machine was running or not. One thing I'm noticing is my apache2 logs. What does this activity represent? 127.0.1.1:8140 <ip_address> - - [19/Apr/2012:19:07:49 -0400] "PUT /production/report/system.sys1.lan HTTP/1.1" 200 4220 "-" "-" 127.0.1.1:8140 <ip_address> - - [19/Apr/2012:19:09:25 -0400] "POST /production/catalog/weaverex.sys2.com HTTP/1.1" 400 4492 "-" "-" 127.0.1.1:8140 <ip_address> - - [19/Apr/2012:19:09:26 -0400] "PUT /production/report/weaverex.sys2.com HTTP/1.1" 200 4220 "-" "-" 127.0.1.1:8140 <ip_address> - - [19/Apr/2012:19:09:35 -0400] "POST /production/catalog/system.sys3.lan HTTP/1.1" 400 4492 "-" "-" 127.0.1.1:8140 <ip_address> - - [19/Apr/2012:19:09:36 -0400] "PUT /production/report/system.sys3.lan HTTP/1.1" 200 4220 "-" "-" 127.0.1.1:8140 <ip_address> - - [19/Apr/2012:19:11:21 -0400] "POST /production/catalog/system.sys4.lan HTTP/1.1" 400 4492 "-" "-" 127.0.1.1:8140 <ip_address> - - [19/Apr/2012:19:11:22 -0400] "PUT /production/report/system.sys4.lan HTTP/1.1" 200 4220 "-" "-" 127.0.1.1:8140 <ip_address> - - [19/Apr/2012:19:12:45 -0400] "POST /production/catalog/system.sys5.lan HTTP/1.1" 400 4476 "-" "-" 127.0.1.1:8140 <ip_address> - - [19/Apr/2012:19:12:46 -0400] "PUT /production/report/system.sys6.lan HTTP/1.1" 200 4220 "-" "-" 127.0.1.1:8140 <ip_address> - - [19/Apr/2012:19:14:55 -0400] "POST /production/catalog/system.sys7.lan HTTP/1.1" 400 4492 "-" "-" 127.0.1.1:8140 <ip_address> - - [19/Apr/2012:19:14:56 -0400] "PUT /production/report/system.sys8.lan HTTP/1.1" 200 4220 "-" "-" 127.0.1.1:8140 <ip_address> - - [19/Apr/2012:19:15:14 -0400] "POST /production/catalog/system.sys8.lan HTTP/1.1" 400 4492 "-" "-" 127.0.1.1:8140 <ip_address> - - [19/Apr/2012:19:15:15 -0400] "PUT /production/report/system.sys8.lan HTTP/1.1" 200 4220 "-" "-" 127.0.1.1:8140 <ip_address> - - [19/Apr/2012:19:17:09 -0400] "POST /production/catalog/system.sys9.lan HTTP/1.1" 400 4492 "-" "-" 127.0.1.1:8140 <ip_address> - - [19/Apr/2012:19:17:10 -0400] "PUT /production/report/system.sys9.lan HTTP/1.1" 200 4220 "-" "-" 127.0.1.1:8140 <ip_address> - - [19/Apr/2012:19:17:45 -0400] "POST /production/catalog/system.sys10.lan HTTP/1.1" 400 4476 "-" "-" 127.0.1.1:8140 <ip_address> - - [19/Apr/2012:19:17:46 -0400] "PUT /production/report/system.sys10.lan HTTP/1.1" 200 4220 "-" "-" 127.0.1.1:8140 <ip_address> - - [19/Apr/2012:19:18:26 -0400] "POST /production/catalog/system.sys11.lan HTTP/1.1" 400 4492 "-" "-" 127.0.1.1:8140 <ip_address> - - [19/Apr/2012:19:18:27 -0400] "PUT /production/report/system.sys11.lan HTTP/1.1" 200 4220 "-" "-" 127.0.1.1:8140 <ip_address> - - [19/Apr/2012:19:19:40 -0400] "POST /production/catalog/system.sys12.lan HTTP/1.1" 400 4492 "-" "-" 127.0.1.1:8140 <ip_address> - - [19/Apr/2012:19:19:41 -0400] "PUT /production/report/system.sys12.lan HTTP/1.1" 200 4220 "-" "-" 127.0.1.1:8140 <ip_address> - - [19/Apr/2012:19:19:44 -0400] "POST /production/catalog/system.sys13.lan HTTP/1.1" 400 4476 "-" "-" 127.0.1.1:8140 <ip_address> - - [19/Apr/2012:19:19:45 -0400] "PUT /production/report/system.sys13.lan HTTP/1.1" 200 4220 "-" "- -----Original Message----- From: puppet-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:puppet-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Wood Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:55 PM To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Cron job isn't running Usually cron problems like this are because of the way cron shrinks your $PATH environment variable. Read "man 5 crontab" and "man 8 cron", or find them on the web. Or use the full path to your puppet executable. Why don't you have puppet set up the cron job for you? That way puppet will install its own cron job on the first (manual, setup) run and will work automatically thereafter. Plus if you want to change your run time later, you need only change your central manifest. cron { 'run puppet': command => "/usr/bin/puppet agent --no-daemonize --onetime", user => 'root', weekday => 2, hour => 1, minute => fqdn_rand(59), } On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:43:16PM -0700, thinkwell wrote: > I only need to run puppet weekly, so I made this little shell script and > put in the the /etc/cron.weekly folder, but it's not running. If I run the > script manually, it works just fine. Why not from cron? > > #!/bin/bash > > ################################# > # Cron job managed by Puppet > ################################# > > # Randomize 15 minutes to avoid overloading server > sleep $((RANDOM % 900)) > exec puppet agent --no-daemonize --onetime > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > [1]https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/Ccx8LJ7QCRMJ. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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. > > References > > Visible links > 1. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/Ccx8LJ7QCRMJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. 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