Puppet couldn t run a cron job

Question

I need to run a cron job every 5 mins, and to accomplish this I have a manifest.

class cron_job{
    file{"puppet_ls":
            path => "/puppet/pls.sh",
            ensure => present,
            content => "#!/bin/sh\necho \"Hello World\"\nls -ltr /etc/puppet > /puppet/dump.txt"
    }
    file { "my_ls.cron":
        path    => "/etc/cron.d/my_ls.cron",
        ensure  => present,
        owner   => "root",
        group   => "root",
        mode    => 0644,
        require => File["puppet_ls"],
        content => "*/1 * * * *  /puppet/pls.sh\n";
    }
}

This manifest creates a file /puupet/pls.sh with the content specific, that is actually running the command ls-ltr /etc/puppet and  * * * * /puppet/pls.sh\n, specifies to run it after every 1 minute.

But I am not getting the file dump.txt inside /puppet/  whereas if I run, sh /puppet/pls.sh, it runs successfully and generates the dump file.

What is the glitch here? Can Somebody help?

Answer 1

You should use the cron type that is built in to puppet.

file { '/puppet/pls.sh':
    content => "#!/bin/sh\necho \"Hello World\"\nls -ltr /etc/puppet > /puppet/dump.txt",
    mode    => 0755, 
}

cron { 'helloworld':   
   command => "/puppet/pls.sh",   
   user    => root,
   hour    => '*',   
   minute  => '*/5',
   require => File['/puppet/pls.sh']
}