I have figured it out, the cron name had a dot n it. I needed to
encase that in quotes before it would work. so it wasn''t a syntax
error like the log message was leading me to believe.
On Feb 9, 12:10 pm, trey85stang <trey85st...@gmail.com>
wrote:> I have a simple class like so for cronjobs:
>
> class cron_jobs {
> cron { cron1:
> command => "/path/to/cron1",
> user => root,
> hour => 0,
> minute => 5,
> ensure => present,
> }
> cron { cron2:
> command => "/path/to/cron2",
> user => root,
> hour => 0,
> minute => 0,
> ensure => present,
> }
> if $myvar == ''foo'' {
> cron { cron3.$myvar:
> command => "/path/to/cron3",
> user => root,
> }
> } else {
> cron { cron3.$myvar:
> commad => "/path/to/cron3",
> user => root,
> }
> }
>
> }
>
> but I am obviously doing something wrong because the clients always
> give a syntax error:
>
> Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER:
> Syntax error at ''.''; expected ''}'' at
/etc/puppet/modules/cron_jobs/
> manifests/init.pp:17 on node noe.domain.com
>
> Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? I''ve also tried with a
case
> statement instead of if but I get the same syntax error at the first
> cron line. So Im guessing something is wrong with the cron command
> in the bracked if statement ?
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