Rudder

Rudder always restarts cron on Ubuntu:

 -> Making a one-time restart promise for /usr/sbin/cron
 -> Executing '/etc/init.d/cron restart' ...(timeout=-678,owner=-1,group=-1)
Q: "...nit.d/cron rest": Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
Q: "...nit.d/cron rest": utility, e.g. service cron restart
Q: "...nit.d/cron rest": Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Q: "...nit.d/cron rest": Upstart job, you may also use the stop(8) and then start(8) utilities,
Q: "...nit.d/cron rest": e.g. stop cron ; start cron. The restart(8) utility is also available.
Q: "...nit.d/cron rest": cron stop/waiting
Q: "...nit.d/cron rest": cron start/running, process 29958
I: Last 7 quoted lines were generated by promiser "/etc/init.d/cron restart" 
 -> Completed execution of /etc/init.d/cron restart

This happens because the process name in promises.cf is not correct on an Ubuntu system:

# ps wwwuax  | grep cron | grep -v grep
root     31539  0.0  0.0  19112   992 ?        Ss   11:28   0:00 cron

The following patch fixes this:

--- /var/rudder/cfengine-community/inputs/promises.cf.orig    2013-04-12 11:30:00.522173676 +0000
+++ /var/rudder/cfengine-community/inputs/promises.cf    2013-04-12 11:30:21.162938118 +0000
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@

         (debian|SuSE)::

-            "cron_bin" string => "/usr/sbin/cron";
+            "cron_bin" string => "cron";
             "cron_restartcmd" string => "/etc/init.d/cron restart";

         redhat::