Creating cron jobs via Puppet is fairly easy and well explained in available docs. However, I had some trouble adding cron jobs that needed to run at 2 different times a day.<\/p>\n
Normal cron behavior is that you just enter a , in between your 2 timestamps and everything is done.<\/p>\n
Eg something like this:<\/p>\n
0 23,5 * * * \/usr\/bin\/php5 \/home\/nicovs\/update_cron.php<\/pre>\nNow, when creating a cronjob with Puppet, you’d think that you can just type<\/p>\n
hour => \"23,5\",<\/pre>\nin your manifest. The answer is: nope!<\/p>\n
This is the error you’ll get:<\/p>\n
err: Failed to apply catalog: Parameter hour failed: 23,5 is not a valid hour at \/etc\/puppet\/manifests\/nodes.pp:5<\/pre>\nIn the example below you’ll see that you have to use array’s to define your cron schedule:<\/p>\n
cron { 'update_cron':\r\n ensure => 'present',\r\n command => '\/usr\/bin\/php5 \/home\/nicovs\/update_cron.php',\r\n user => 'nicovs', \r\n hour => [ 23, 5 ], \r\n minute => '30', \r\n}<\/pre>\nIf you want to schedule this command to run every hour, your can use this however:<\/p>\n
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