Role for deploy crond & cron jobs
- Ansible 3.0.0+
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cron_jobs:
# Enable crond service or not
- enable: 'true'
# Restart cron service. This is not necessary if kernel have inotify support
restart: 'true'
# Install cron daemon package or not
install_package: 'true'
# Drop exists jobs (exclude distro-specific files) or not
drop_exists: 'true'
# Setup cron daemon options. Only for RedHat & Archlinux, Debian uses own
# version of crond
settings:
# Disables inotify support
- inotify: 'false'
# This option allows you to specify a shell command to use for sending Cron mail
# output instead of using sendmail This command must accept a fully formatted
# mail message (with headers) on standard input and send it as a mail message
# to the recipients specified in the mail headers. Specifying the string 'off'
# will disable the sending of mail
mail: 'off'
# Don't set PATH. PATH is instead inherited from the environment
path: 'false'
# This option enables clustering support, as described below
clustering: 'false'
# This option will direct Cron to send the job output to the system log using
# syslog. This is useful if your system does not have sendmail installed or if
# mail is disabled
system_log: 'true'
jobs:
# Set env for bob jobs
MAILTO:
file: 'bob'
user: 'bob'
job: 'bob@allsafe.com'
env: 'true'
# Define 'foo' job for bob
bob_cron:
file: 'bob'
user: 'bob'
minute: '01'
hour: '01'
day: '*'
weekday: '*'
month: '*'
job: 'foo'
state: 'present'
# Define alice's 'bar' job
alice_cron:
file: 'alice'
user: 'root'
minute: '03'
hour: '04'
day: '*'
weekday: '*'
month: '*'
job: 'bar'
state: 'present'