It works as expected for me on a test Fedora machine.
As a test user, create a debug playbook and test it runs.
[test-user@fedora ~]$ id
uid=1001(test-user) gid=1001(test-user) groups=1001(test-user)
context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
[test-user@fedora ~]$ cat debug.yaml
---
- name: touch a timestamped file
hosts: localhost
tasks:
- name: touch a file
ansible.builtin.command: touch /tmp/ansible-cron
[test-user@fedora ~]$ ansible-playbook debug.yaml
PLAY RECAP
*********************************************************************
localhost : ok=2 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0
skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
[test-user@fedora ~]$ ll /tmp/ansible-cron
-rw-r--r--. 1 test-user test-user 0 Apr 19 17:36 /tmp/ansible-cron
[test-user@fedora ~]$ rm /tmp/ansible-cron
As a real user, schedule the previously tested playbook via cron.
[real-user@fedora ansible-cron]$ cat add-cron.yaml
---
- name: Create a test cronjob to touch a file
hosts: localhost
become: true
tasks:
- name: add crontab entry
ansible.builtin.cron:
name: This cronjob is scheduled by Ansible
minute: "*"
hour: "*"
day: "*"
month: "*"
weekday: "*"
user: test-user
job: "ansible-playbook -i localhost /home/test-user/debug.yaml"
state: present
[real-user@fedora ansible-cron]$ ansible-playbook add-cron.yaml
PLAY RECAP
*********************************************************************
localhost : ok=2 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0
skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
[root@fedora ~]# crontab -l -u test-user
#Ansible: This cronjob is scheduled by Ansible
* * * * * ansible-playbook -i localhost /home/test-user/debug.yaml
[root@fedora ~]# systemctl start crond.service
[root@fedora ~]# ll /tmp/ans*
-rw-r--r--. 1 test-user test-user 0 Apr 19 17:42 /tmp/ansible-cron
For me the level of log info sent to the journal wasn't terribly helpful,
so you might want to try stopping the service and running in the foreground
with debug for more detail (YMMV depending on distro/config and
customisation):
# systemctl stop crond.service
# crond -n -s -x ext,sch,proc,pars,load,misc
On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 at 17:38, John Welby <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, there are copy/paste errors as I am transcribing and scrubbing info
> from a high-side environment.
>
>
> On Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 12:21:47 PM UTC-4 Dick Visser wrote:
>
>> 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
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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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