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Error: Could not find a suitable provider for cron

From what I'm reading it seems cron is built into Puppet.

cron { 'apply puppet master config':
  command => 'puppet apply /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/master.pp',
  hour    => [ 12, 0 ],
}

Yet when I try to run the above configuration I get the following error:

Error: Could not find a suitable provider for cron

Why isn't Puppet using the built in cron type?

Solution

  • Despite the fact that my system had cron jobs located in /etc/cron.daily and /etc/cron.weekly the cron package on ubuntu which Puppet relies on wasn't installed. (As pointed out in comments by Dominic & Matt).

    I was able to fix this by adding this to my configuration file before running the cron configuration:

    package { 'cron':
  ensure => installed,
}