[chef] cron gives a broken pipe

[Raphael Bauduin < >]

Hi,

I get a broken pipe error when creating a cron tasks. The cron file is
empty when the recipe is run.

Here's the error message:

[Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:39:36 +0000] DEBUG: Cron empty for 'deploy'
[Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:39:36 +0000] ERROR: cron[Add scout cron task]
(/root/scalarium-agent/site-cookbooks/scout/recipes/install.rb line
23) had an error:
Broken pipe
/root/scalarium-agent/bin/../vendor/gems/gems/naked-chef-0.8.1/bin/../lib/chef/provider/cron.rb:147:in
`write'


Line 23 of the recipe is

cron "Add scout cron task" do
  action  :create
  command "/usr/local/bin/scout #{MYID]}"
  user "deploy"
end


line 147 of cron.rb is:

          status = popen4("crontab -u 

 
 -",
:waitlast => true) do |pid, stdin, stdout, stderr|
            crontab.each { |line| stdin.puts "#{line}" }
          end


I've seen I'm not the only one to get this problem (look at the bottom
of this page: https://github.com/gcao/chef) but I have not found any
explanations or solutions to this. Any hint?

Thanks

Raph

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