aspects_cron

Manage anacrontab, crontab, and normal user cronjobs with simple dictionary definitions.

Requirements

Set hash_behaviour=merge in your ansible.cfg file.

Role Variables

Variables should be self explanatory. If any are confusing, checking the anacrontab or crontab man pages should clear things up.

aspects_cron_enabled

If False, do not run tasks in this role.

If True, run tasks in this role.

Dependencies

aspects_packages

aspects_packages is used to install cronie-anacron on OracleLinux 6. The Vagrant box I used while testing did not have any crontab utility installed.

If you don't want to use aspects_packages, just set aspects_packages_enabled: False.

Example Playbook

- hosts:
  - aspects_cron
  vars:
    aspects_cron_enabled: True
    aspects_packages_enabled: True
    aspects_cron_jobs:
      testecho:
        name: "Test echo job."
        state: "absent"
        backup: "no"
        minute: "23"
        hour: "3"
        day: "5"
        weekday: "5"
        month: "2"
        user: "root"
        job: "echo noghlsdkjf > /dev/null"
      testecho2:
        name: "Another Test echo job."
        state: "present"
        backup: "no"
        minute: "23"
        hour: "3"
        day: "5"
        weekday: "5"
        month: "2"
        user: "root"
        job: "echo noghlsdkjf > /dev/null"
    aspects_cron_job_env:
      mailto:
        enabled: True
        variable: "MAILTO"
        value: "root@examble.org"
        user: "root"
  roles:
  - aspects_cron

License

MIT