Details
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Type:
Bug
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Status: Closed
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Priority:
Normal
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Resolution: Fixed
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Affects Version/s: PUP 5.5.3
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Fix Version/s: None
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Component/s: None
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Labels:
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Template:
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Team:Night's Watch
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Story Points:3
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Sprint:PR - 2019-04-17
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Method Found:Needs Assessment
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CS Priority:Reviewed
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Zendesk Ticket IDs:34212
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Zendesk Ticket Count:1
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Release Notes:Not Needed
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QA Risk Assessment:Needs Assessment
Description
Puppet Version:2018.1.2
Puppet Server Version:5.5.3
OS Name/Version:centos 7.5
Describe your issue in as much detail as possible…
Describe steps to reproduce…
Desired Behavior: Puppet, throws a crontab error when examining the /var/spool/cron directory, as tries to list the crontab for users when that user is just a temp file starting with a hash. Oddly, this error does not appear in the debug log, only in STDERR
To re-create the error, all you need to do is create a file starting with a hash in the /var/spool/cron/ folder. (touch '/var/spool/cron/#tmp.XXXXkhATKA') as is created by editing the crontab and having that process crash during edit.
Actual Behavior:
[root@xxxxx tmp]# puppet agent -t
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Info: Using configured environment 'staging'
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Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
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Info: Retrieving plugin
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Info: Retrieving locales
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Info: Loading facts
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Info: Caching catalog for xxxxx.example.com
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Info: Applying configuration version '200fcdecf443bdcf4232a9c6abafabc14bd819eb'
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crontab: option requires an argument – 'u'
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crontab: usage error: unrecognized option
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usage: crontab [-u user] file
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crontab [-u user] [ -e | -l | -r ]
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(default operation is replace, per 1003.2)
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-e (edit user's crontab)
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-l (list user's crontab)
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-r (delete user's crontab)
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-i (prompt before deleting user's crontab)
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-s (selinux context)
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Notice: Applied catalog in 6.50 seconds
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[root@xxxxxx tmp]# ls -l /var/spool/cron/
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total 4
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-rw-------. 1 username username 0 Dec 17 2014 username
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-rw-------. 1 root root 1182 Mar 12 16:24 root
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-rw-------. 1 root root 0 Mar 15 2019 #tmp.XXXXkhATKA
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[root@xxxxxx tmp]# rm /var/spool/cron/#tmp.XXXXkhATKA
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rm: remove regular empty file `/var/spool/cron/#tmp.XXXXkhATKA'? y
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[root@xxxxxx tmp]# puppet agent -t
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Info: Using configured environment 'staging'
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Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
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Info: Retrieving plugin
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Info: Retrieving locales
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Info: Loading facts
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Info: Caching catalog for xxxxxx.example.com
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Info: Applying configuration version '200fcdecf443bdcf4232a9c6abafabc14bd819eb'
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Notice: Applied catalog in 5.20 seconds
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