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I''ve been using puppet for a while but I just recently decided to start using it to manage crontabs. It works great but puppet is reporting (and being very noisy about it) every time it does a run even when there is nothing in the actual crontab to change. I think this is happening because I''m setting defaults for the Cron type, which I should be able to do. Right? eg: Cron {

The docs to installing cfengine refers to /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root That doesn't exist. Nor does /etc/crontab. Heck I remember that from the "old days", now there are lots of cron entries, in /etc but no crontab. Not installed by default. So, I'm hunting that one down. Nate, what did you wind up doing?? Ric -- ---------------------------------------------------- My father,

Hi, I also met an error in crontabs: Could not prefetch "NilClass"rovider crontab: undefined method `each'' for nil:NilClass this is on freeBSD. 0.22.4 was working fine on the very same host. Any idea ? The crontab binary is there but it seems puppet does not find the right provider in this version ? -- Cordialement, Ghislain

> Date: Thursday, July 20, 2017 02:25:52 +0000 > From: Richard <lists-centos at listmail.innovate.net> > >> Date: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 23:31:10 +0000 >> From: Chad Cordero <ccordero at csusb.edu> >> >> It?s being rejected before it even reaches the mailbox, so >> forwarding won?t work.? Crond should really be using the MAILTO >>

Hello folks.. I suddenly found the crontab on one of my puppet clients overwritten. It had many entries, including one created by Puppet. Suddenly during one run it was overwritten, keeping only the Puppet entry and removing everything else. Nothing changed between the previous runs and the one that re-created the crontab in terms of configuration. I''m running Puppet 2.7.6. Fri Jul

Hi folks, While investigating OpenBSD's cron implementation, I found that they set the systemwide crontab (a.k.a. /etc/crontab) to be readable by the superuser only. The attached patch will bring this to FreeBSD by moving crontab out from BIN1 group and install it along with master.passwd. This change should not affect the current cron(1) behavior. Cheers, -- Xin LI <delphij frontfree

Hey list, I have several crontabs set up to run at night and I'm not convinced they are running but of course, I'm not here to see for sure! The crontabs are like the following example; 30 20 * * * sh /home/a_user/nightlyscrips/nightly_script_1 > /home/a_user/nightlyscripts/`date +%d-%m-%Y--%H-%M-%S`.log However, if this would have successfully ran last night I would surely expect to

Hi On 6/10/09, James Bensley <jwbensley at gmail.com> Hi all, I don't know what exactly is causing this, but I can't find cron / crontab on my CentOS 5.3 machine. Yes, I know, it's an obvious one, install it. But, it is, according to rpm: [root at zaxen01 ~]# rpm -aq | grep cron anacron-2.3-45.el5.centos crontabs-1.10-8 I have tried yum update crontabs, and then it said there

I've been experiencing some intermittent problems accessing at NetApp server via NFS and automount. I'm running CentOS 5.2 (fully updated) on all my servers and workstations. Usually, everything is working just fine, when suddenly we get the following error: /bin/sh: /home/epd/srcref/swtools/Crontabs/ run_release_requests.sh: Permission denied This is actually an email from

I want to manage cronjobs as a " file " in solaris through puppet and not using the puppet cron resource. I will be managing the file /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root. I want the cron file to be same across all servers except some servers will have additional cron entries. How can I append to the file /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root , something like appendifnosuchline in cfengine? Can

I am writing a definition that installs a crontab. I would like it to run the command only when the downloaded file changes. I am using "subscribe" but it doesn''t seem to do the job. The exec command is run every time. define crontab($host = $hostname) { $path = "/tmp/$name.$host.cron" remotefile { $path: source =>

Hi all, This is crazy but I can't see the answer.? In my system crontab I've added a job to stop the music system at 10:59 on the 11th November, and restart it at 11:02 on the 11th November # m??? h??? dom??? mon? dow??? user??? command ? 59? 10???? *???? 11??? *???? root???? /bin/squeezy -all -off >>/var/log/newplaylist 2>&1 ? 02? 11???? *???? 11??? *???? root????

Currently under solaris 8 with a fairly generic build: CC="cc" ./configure \ --prefix=/opt/openssh \ --sysconfdir=/var/ssh \ --with-rsh=/usr/local/etc/rsh \ --with-ipv4-default \ --with-ssl-dir=/usr/local/ssl \ --with-ipaddr-display \ --with-pam \ --with-pid-dir=/var/ssh cron will quit working since ssh hasn't

Hi, I'm trying to figure out which process is rotating my maillog every Sunday at 4:03 am. This happens on all of my centos 4 boxes. AFAICT, logrotate is not running. This is from a fairly minimal install, so I'm assuming this is a default process. --- [root at penguin ~]# ls -l /var/log/maill* -rw------- 1 root root 230603836 Sep 27 16:30 /var/log/maillog -rw------- 1 root

Is one meant to have one or the other? If so, which is recommended? I have -------------------------------- [tim at helen etc]$ cat anacrontab # /etc/anacrontab: configuration file for anacron # See anacron(8) and anacrontab(5) for details. SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root 1 65 cron.daily run-parts /etc/cron.daily 7 70 cron.weekly

Hi all I have a '/etc/cron.daily/push-to-backup' script which the content is: #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/rsync [... long options line ...] echo "finished pushing to the backup" Launched manually, it's OK. Waiting for cron to execute it, In the "/var/log/cron", I see the starting time and the finish time, and I see it take about 10 minutes to make the job.

Hello, I have a strange problem this nigth that i cannot solve, perhaps you can help me understand what is wrong. I have a file type that upload a directory into my servers. Inside this uploaded directory i create subdirectory and files on my own (directly on the target host). The problem is that when puppet comes back to the directory it spills out this error: err:

I was attempting to set up some cron jobs via puppet. I was trying to get cron to mail the output of the cron jobs to a specific user, so I was attempting to set MAILTO=user@example.com, via the environment => specifier. Puppet did as it was told. Unfortunately, I guess that Solaris 10 does not support setting of environment variables in crontab files (directly), so when puppet attempted to

I have several crontabs running at various times of the day and night. All generate copious output. All the jobs produce copious output, and some of them I need to see, while others are 's are just a pain in the butt to have t look at. is there some method I can use to selectively monitor cron's output of the one's I want to, while ignoring the others? Thanks... Sam

Hi, I just configured SquidAnalyzer, a nifty little network statistics tool that I'm using mainly in school networks to monitor network usage. I want to run the '/usr/bin/squid-analyzer' script once a day. I took a peek in /etc/cron.daily, and the package already installed an /etc/cron.daily/0squidanalyzer script. I wanted to know at what time CentOS ran the cron.daily scripts,