[jira] [Commented] (INFRA-10089) Running Cronjobs on comdev1-us-west.a.o

["Tony Stevenson (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Tony Stevenson commented on INFRA-10089:
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Ross, 

Firstly thanks for asking before doing this.  
I can assure you that your not being in /etc/shadow is not the cause of the issue. Our systems use LDAP, and so /etc/shadow is empty bar the local system accounts. 

How did you add your cronjob ? 

If you want your change to be persistent, it needs to be added to puppet yes, but then so should all your other changes.  Else you'd have a cron job added to run something that wont be there. 

I'll try and take a look shortly. 

> Running Cronjobs on comdev1-us-west.a.o
> ---------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: INFRA-10089
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-10089
>             Project: Infrastructure
>          Issue Type: Task
>            Reporter: Ross Gardler
>
> I have my application up and running on comdev1-us-west.a.o so all good.
> Now I need create a cron job which will create daily backups of the data for the application.
> I've set up a the crontab but it does not run. I believe this is because my user (rgardler) is not in /etc/shadow
> Now I could add it myself since I have sudo access but I wanted to ask two questions first:
> 1 - is there any reason you don't want me to do this
> 2 - should this be done via the puppet manifest, if so how and where is it?



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