Sorry, package["anacron"] is a bad example, since that package doesn't
actually provide cron. But it behaves identically with
package["cron"].
The issue is as Teyo describes -- the failure occurs before the package
resource is ever executed. I get the same error if the package doesn't
exist, or isn't defined.
seph
Teyo Tyree <t...@reductivelabs.com> writes:
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> On Jul 22, 2009, at 8:40 AM, Nigel Kersten <nig...@google.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:35 AM, seph<s...@directionless.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd like to use puppet to manage some cron jobs. Unfortunately, I
>>> do not
>>> have cron installed on my servers. So, I'd like to use puppet to
>>> install
>>> cron. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work. Puppet complains
>>> about
>>> the lack of provider before it runs down the dependencies. For
>>> example,
>>> this ought complain about the lack of package, or install it:
>>>
>>> r...@puppet-test:~# cat /var/tmp/puppet-cron.pp
>>> package{ "anacron":
>>> ensure => "latest",
>>> }
>>> cron {"puppet cron test":
>>> command => "echo test",
>>> hour => 0,
>>> user => "root",
>>> require => Package["anacron"],
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> r...@puppet-test:~# puppet /var/tmp/puppet-cron.pp
>>> sh: Syntax error: Bad fd number
>>> sh: Syntax error: Bad fd number
>>> err: Could not create puppet cron test: Could not find a default
>>> provider for cron
>>> Could not find a default provider for cron
>>
>> It looks to me like the crontab provider requires that the command
>> 'crontab' exists, and the anacron pacakge I'm looking at doesn't
>> supply that.
>>
>> You should be fine if you install crontab as well, otherwise I think
>> we'll need an anacron provider.
>>
> Is the anacron package even getting installed or is the failure
> occuring before the package resource is executed?
>
>>
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> seph
>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Nigel Kersten
>> nig...@google.com
>> System Administrator
>> Google, Inc.
>>
>> >
>
>
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