---
- name: Create a cronjob to patch dev instances
hosts: controller
tasks:
- name: Schedule cron
ansible.builtin.cron:
name: This cronjob is scheduled by Ansible
minute: "15"
hour: "12"
day: "*"
month: "*"
weekday: "3"
user: ec2-user
job: "/home/jwelby/ansible/sub-playbooks/ansible-playbook -i
dev-hosts /home/jwelby/ansible/sub-playbooks/patching.yml"
state: present
crontab -l
30 15 * * 3 /home/jwelby/ansible/sub-playbooks/patching.yaml
crond.service is active and running
Thanks!
John
On Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 10:56:07 AM UTC-4 Will McDonald wrote:
> More information would be helpful here.
>
> 1. Can you share your usage of ansible.builtin.cron?
> 2. Can you share the output of crontab -l for the user you're creating the
> cron job for/as, or the contents of /etc/crontab and/or /etc/cron.* ?
> 3. What's in your cronlog or systemd journal?
> 4. Obvious question but you do have a vixie cron variant installed and the
> appropriate services started?
>
>
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 at 15:26, John Welby <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> Can a playbook be run by 'job', i.e. instead of a script.
>>
>> I created a playbook that creates an entry in crontab, which it does
>> successfully, but it does not execute the playbook I specified in job:
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> John
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