Puppet users - Feb 2013 - Running Puppet Agent from the system crontab

Found this out the hard way :) 
Thought I would share. 

For reasons I will not go into, I am running puppet agent by cron using the
system crontab -- /etc/crontab and /etc/cron.d/*

In those, you have to define your environment. Thru trial and error, I found
what I believe is the minimum environment settings for my systems:

These are Red Hat Enterprise 5 running Puppet 2.7.20 

The top of my /etc/cron.d/puppet.cron is : 

# /etc/cron.d/puppet.cron: Run Puppet Agent in a non-daemon mode 
SHELL=/bin/bash 
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin 
# minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week user-to-run-as TheCommand 

Of course I am using a template with <%=
scope.function_fqdn_rand(["60"]) %> to get a "random"
minute for each server.

“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the
universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)

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