Here’s the cron in question:

    cron {
            upgrade_puppet:
            command => "/root/upgrade_puppet.sh",
            user    => root,
            hour    => 9,
            minute  => 10,
            ensure  => present
    }

Here’s the error produced by puppet:

debug: //base_ec2/Cron[upgrade_puppet]: Changing ensure debug: //base_ec2/Cron[upgrade_puppet]: 1 change(s) notice: //base_ec2/Cron[upgrade_puppet]/ensure: created debug: Flushing cron provider target root “–”:5: bad hour errors in crontab file, can’t install.

I was using cron bash scripts to upgrade puppet across 70 servers from 0.25.1 to 0.25.3. 0.25.1 can install, modify and remove the cron fine, but 0.25.3 throws this error.

Here’s the full crontab:

HEADER: This file was autogenerated at Mon Jan 25 16:31:33 -0500 2010 by puppet.

HEADER: While it can still be managed manually, it is definitely not recommended.

HEADER: Note particularly that the comments starting with ‘Puppet Name’ should

HEADER: not be deleted, as doing so could cause duplicate cron jobs.

Puppet Name: backup_app

45 3 * * * /usr/local/bin/backup_app.pl

I can manually edit the crontab fine via ‘crontab -e’