Hi Josh,
That's explained it. Thanks for your information
David
On Wednesday, June 5, 2013 6:08:27 PM UTC-4, Josh Cooper wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 12:08 PM, <beyonddc...@gmail.com <javascript:>>wrote:
>
>> I have a very simple scheduled_task resource defined.
>>
>> class delete_task {
>> scheduled_task { 'testing123':
>> name => "test_task",
>> ensure => absent,
>> }
>> }
>>
>> I created this "test_task" by hand using the Windows Task Scheduler GUI.
>> When I use Puppet and apply my resource, the task didn't get delete.
>>
>> On the other case if I create this "test_task" using Puppet. The task
>> will be created and I be able to delete the task using my delete_task
>> resource.
>> scheduled_task { 'testing321':
>> name => "test_task",
>> ensure => present,
>> enabled => true,
>> command => 'C:\Windows\system32\notepad.exe',
>> trigger => {
>> schedule => daily,
>> every => 2, # Defaults to 1
>> start_date => '2011-08-31', # Defaults to 'today'
>> start_time => '08:00', # Must be specified
>> }
>>
>> My question is whether this behavior is expected? Does Puppet only allow
>> you to delete a task that Puppet creates?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> David
>>
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>
>
> Puppet uses v1 of the windows scheduler APIs to maintain compatibility
> with 2003 and up. However, if you are on Vista/2008/2012, and use the GUI
> to create the task, by default it gets created using the v2 API, which
> puppet cannot manage. There should be an option to create an older style
> task, in which case, puppet should be able to manage it.
>
> Longer term, I'd like to create a new scheduled_task provider that
> supports the v2 interface on platforms where that's available. Doing so
> would enable us to run every X minutes:
> https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/16804
>
> Josh
>
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