+1
On May 26, 2009, at 4:20 PM, Calimero wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> As described in ticket #2293 in redmine, the Cron resources currently
> has two restrictions compared to what vixie-cron (shipped with CentOS,
> Debian...) actually supports:
>
> 1/ Syntax X-Y/Z is not supported (while X-Y/*)
>
> 2/ Sunday must be given as 0 (or 'sun') while vixie-cron supports both
> 0 and 7
>
> Second restriction is probably no big deal (actually when changed 7 to
> 0 on the fly while converting our crontabs to puppet resources). But
> X-
> Y/Z not being supported is a bit more of a problem for us.
>
> So we ended up with the following patch (against 0.24.8):
>
> diff -ru puppet-0.24.8/lib/puppet/type/cron.rb puppet-0.24.8-cron-
> patch/lib/puppet/type/cron.rb
> --- puppet-0.24.8/lib/puppet/type/cron.rb 2009-03-23
> 22:35:33.000000000 +0100
> +++ puppet-0.24.8-cron-patch/lib/puppet/type/cron.rb 2009-05-22
> 11:27:57.469213000 +0200
> @@ -173,6 +173,11 @@
> return value
> end
>
> + # Allow ranges + */2
> + if value =~ /^[0-9]+-[0-9]+\/[0-9]+$/
> + return value
> + end
> +
> if value == "*"
> return value
> end
> @@ -268,10 +273,10 @@
> def alpha
> %w{sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday
> saturday}
> end
> - self.boundaries = [0, 6]
> + self.boundaries = [0, 7]
> desc "The weekday on which to run the command.
> Optional; if specified, must be between 0 and 6,
> inclusive, with
> - 0 being Sunday, or must be the name of the day (e.g.,
> Tuesday)."
> + 0 (or 7) being Sunday, or must be the name of the day
> (e.g., Tuesday)."
> end
>
> newproperty(:month, :parent => CronParam) do
>
>
> Patch is also attached to redmine ticket #2293 if you prefer redmine's
> fancy and colorful diff viewer. :-)
>
> Well as you can see this is no rocket science. Anyway I don't know
> what other cron daemon support (or don't...).
>
> Bye,
> Calimero !
>
> >
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