fix crontabs with dots on debian & added rsnapshot_prefix var

manifests/config.pp

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ class rsnapshot::config (
 
   # custom function, if only a hostname is given as a param, this is an empty hash
   # the next loop would break as puppet does not allow to reassign variables
-  # the function checks $hosts for elements like: 
+  # the function checks $hosts for elements like:
   # { foo => } and converts those to { foo => {} }
   $hosts_clean = assert_empty_hash($hosts)
 
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ class rsnapshot::config (
       content => template('rsnapshot/rsnapshot.erb'),
     }
 
-    
+
 
     if has_key($hash, backup_scripts) {
       $hash[backup_scripts].each |$script, $scriptconf| {
@@ -158,11 +158,25 @@ class rsnapshot::config (
           content => template("rsnapshot/${script}.sh.erb"),
           mode    => '0755',
         }
-        
+
       }
     }
 
-    $cronfile = "${cron_dir}/${host}"
+    # cron on Debian seems to ignore files that have dots in their name; replace
+    # them with underscores (issue #2)
+    if $::osfamily == 'Debian' {
+      $cron_name = regsubst("${host}", '\.', '_')
+      $cronfile = "${cron_dir}/${rsnapshot_prefix}${cron_name}"
+    }
+    else {
+      $cronfile = "${cron_dir}/${rsnapshot_prefix}${host}"
+    }
+
+    # Make sure old cron files without rsnapshot_prefix are removed
+    file { "${cron_dir}/${host}":
+      ensure => absent,
+    }
+
     concat { $cronfile:
     }
     # create cron files for each backup level
@@ -190,4 +204,3 @@ class rsnapshot::config (
     }
   }
 }
-

manifests/init.pp

@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ class rsnapshot (
   $snapshot_root                 = $rsnapshot::params::config_snapshot_root,
   $backup_levels                 = $rsnapshot::params::config_backup_levels,
   $cron_service_name             = $rsnapshot::params::cron_service_name,
+  $rsnapshot_prefix             =  $rsnapshot::params::config_rsnapshot_prefix,
+  
 ) inherits rsnapshot::params {
 
   $default_backup_scripts = $rsnapshot::params::backup_scripts + $backup_scripts
@@ -32,4 +34,3 @@ class rsnapshot (
     contain '::rsnapshot::service'
   }
 }
-

manifests/params.pp

@@ -42,8 +42,9 @@ class rsnapshot::params {
   $config_verbose                = '2'
   $config_loglevel               = '4'
   $config_stop_on_stale_lockfile = undef # bool
+  $config_rsnapshot_prefix       = 'rsnapshot_'
   $config_rsync_short_args       = '-az'
-  $config_rsync_long_args        = undef # defaults are --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded 
+  $config_rsync_long_args        = undef # defaults are --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded
   $config_ssh_args               = undef
   $config_du_args                = undef
   $config_one_fs                 = undef