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Hi Fibo,<br />
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There is some corruption in the cron files under /etc/cron.d/<br />
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Our developers are trying to resolve this issue.<br />
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The customer has placed all their crons in the root crontab, and this seems to work, but each time they run puppet agent -t, it reverts these changes.<br />
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So I wanted a temporary work-around to disable just the enforcement of this one directory (/etc/cron.d).
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The issue remains unresolved.
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Can you find somethiung in the Puppet &quot;jobs&quot; which might cause this cron.d reiterated clean-up?
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Hi Guys,<br />
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One of our customers are having an issue with the contents of /etc/cron.d/* not being processed correctly and have decided to use crontab instead (until the issue is resolved).<br />
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However, our PuppetMaster is set to enforce the usage of /etc/cron.d/* and delete any crons under /var/spool/cron/ (once puppet agent -t is run).<br />
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Is there a way (perhaps in site.pp) to prevent the deletion of /var/spool/cron/ ?<br />
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Thank you.
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Hi Guys,

One of our customers are having an issue with the contents of /etc/cron.d/* not being processed correctly and have decided to use crontab instead (until the issue is resolved).

However, our PuppetMaster is set to enforce the usage of /etc/cron.d/* and delete any crons under /var/spool/cron/ (once puppet agent -t is run).

Is there a way (perhaps in site.pp) to prevent the deletion of /var/spool/cron/ ?

Thank you.

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