A puppet cron job snippet for a poll cron task for puppet runs

gistfile1.pp

  # establishes a cron entry that runs the puppet agent every 30 minutes, starting
  # at a time that is derived from the primary ip-address
  # largely based on http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Cron_Patterns
  $timeoffset1 = ip_to_cron(1,29)
  $timeoffset2 = $timeoffset1 + 30
  cron { "puppet":
    ensure => present,
    command => "puppet agent --onetime --no-daemonize --environment ${environment} --fqdn ${hostname}.${dnsdomain} --logdest syslog  > /dev/null 2>&1",
    user => "root",
    minute  => [ $timeoffset1, $timeoffset2 ],
  }