"-":6: bad command when setting up an agent

[tekenny]

When creating Cron[puppet_agent_at_boot] I get the following error
"-":6: bad command
errors in crontab file, can't install.

I get this when I try to apply
class { 'puppet::agent': env => 'dev', puppet_server => "puppet.$::domain", }

I confirmed that I can create a cron resource since the following works
cron { 'foo': command => 'echo foo', }

I am using the following modules on RHEL 6.4
ghoneycutt-common-1.0.2
ghoneycutt-puppet-2.1.2
leinaddm-htpasswd-0.0.1
puppetlabs-apache-0.8.1
puppetlabs-firewall-0.4.1
puppetlabs-mysql-0.9.0
puppetlabs-passenger-0.1.0
puppetlabs-stdlib-4.1.0

Any suggestions on what I may be doing wrong, what I can try or how I can be of assistance in resolving this issue would be appreciated.

[tekenny]

I did a little more experimenting and found that the following run by itself does work even though the above doesn't

$at_boot_ensure = present
$my_cron_command = '/usr/bin/puppet agent --onetime --ignorecache --no-daemonize --no-usecacheonfailure --detailed-exitcodes --no-splay --noop'
$cron_user = root

cron { 'puppet_agent_once_at_boot':
ensure => $at_boot_ensure,
command => $my_cron_command,
user => $cron_user,
special => 'reboot',
}

after running this separately class { 'puppet::agent': ... } works

[tekenny]

This issue eventually went away. I'm not sure what the cause actually was but suspect it was not due to this module so I'm closing the issue.

[tekenny]

On a new RHEL 6.4 system this error is occurring for Class { 'puppet::agent': }

Since I'm using default parameters $run_method = 'service' and thus $my_cron_command = undef
This seems to cause a problem for Cron['puppet_agent_once_at_boot'] since command = undef
Thus causing the error
"-":6: bad command
errors in crontab file, can't install.

A quick work around is to set $run_at_boot => false whenever $run_method = 'service'

[tekenny]

I am hoping that #37 will resolve this issue.

[ghoneycutt]

Thanks! Closing this and we can discuss in PR #37