[TriLUG] Cron weirdness

[Robert Dale]

Does 'example' exist prior to copy?

What's the timestamp of 'example' before you touch it?



On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Igor Partola <igor at igorpartola.com> wrote:
> TriLUG,
>
> I have a strange cron issue that I don't exactly know how to even
> describe/Google. Here's what's happening:
>
>  - I spin up CentOS 6.4 instances on EC2 and provision them all using the
> same puppet manifests.
>  - One of the puppet modules I wrote contains two files that get copied
> (with the same owner and permissions) to /etc/cron.d/. The filenames are in
> the form of `example` and `example-foo-bar`.
>
> The problem I have is that only the file `example-foo-bar` is seen by cron
> right away. The `example` file is not UNTIL I `touch /etc/cron.d/example`.
> Then I see a message in the /var/log/cron that cron noticed it, and it
> start executing normally. When the file is touched, the following shows up
> in /var/log/cron:
>
> Jun 18 01:37:01 ip-XX-XX-XX-XX crond[895]: (system) RELOAD
> (/etc/cron.d/example)
>
> I know that you cannot have the "." character in the names, etc. but this
> name matches [a-z]+. I could have puppet `/usr/bin/touch` the file, but I
> am trying to understand why this is happening.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Igor
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