Also the file name extensions are different (yml vs yaml). Are we looking at some copy paste errors?
On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 at 18:18, 'Rowe, Walter P. (Fed)' via Ansible Project < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- > Walter Rowe, Division Chief > Infrastructure Services, OISM > Mobile: 202.355.4123 > > 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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/34c698f9-be82-4e15-a486-3dddb5ebf3ecn%40googlegroups.com > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/d31172bf-3b3a-4749-882f-437e0401d345n%40googlegroups.com > . > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/DFE1A099-5F3B-4992-8993-CB0B03F7BD26%40nist.gov > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/DFE1A099-5F3B-4992-8993-CB0B03F7BD26%40nist.gov?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAF8BbLaBDKL8e1jOoSnQHta472ytysdWzbMnhy%2Bjqjxx9O0OBw%40mail.gmail.com.
