[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#1060084: puppet-agent: Resource type 'Cron' was not found, even after puppet-module-puppetlabs-cron-core installed

[Georg Faerber]

Hi Will,

On 24-01-05 19:02:38, Will Partain wrote:
> Invoked puppet-agent against a "legacy" server:
> 
>    /usr/bin/puppet agent --server parple-pup1.parple.org --test --certname=parple-pup2.parple.org --environment=prodnew --diff_args=-U1 --noop --debug
> 
> It received "work" from the server, and started doing things, until it
> needed 'Cron'... (the debugging log just before that...):
> 
>   Debug: /Package[apticron]: Provider apt does not support features install_only; not managing attribute install_only
>   Debug: /Package[logrotate]: Provider apt does not support features targetable; not managing attribute command
>   Debug: /Package[logrotate]: Provider apt does not support features install_only; not managing attribute install_only
>   Error: Failed to apply catalog: Resource type 'Cron' was not found

On bullseye, I had to install the 'cron' package on the machine running
the agent. I'm not sure if it works with other cron implementations as
well.

Maybe this helps,
all the best,
Georg