job: "/home/jwelby/ansible/sub-playbooks/ansible-playbook -i dev-hosts 
/home/jwelby/ansible/sub-playbooks/patching.yml"


   30 15 * * 3 /home/jwelby/ansible/sub-playbooks/patching.yaml

These don't match. cron isn't running ansible-playbook. It is trying to run the 
YAML file itself.

Walter
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On Apr 19, 2023, at 12:08 PM, John Welby <[email protected]> wrote:

---
- 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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