community.general.cronvar – Manage variables in crontabs

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.cronvar.

Synopsis

  • Use this module to manage crontab variables.
  • This module allows you to create, update, or delete cron variable definitions.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • cron

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
backup
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
If set, create a backup of the crontab before it is modified. The location of the backup is returned in the backup variable by this module.
cron_file
string
If specified, uses this file instead of an individual user's crontab.
Without a leading /, this is assumed to be in /etc/cron.d.
With a leading /, this is taken as absolute.
insertafter
string
If specified, the variable will be inserted after the variable specified.
Used with state=present.
insertbefore
string
Used with state=present. If specified, the variable will be inserted just before the variable specified.
name
string / required
Name of the crontab variable.
state
string
    Choices:
  • absent
  • present ←
Whether to ensure that the variable is present or absent.
user
string
The specific user whose crontab should be modified.
This parameter defaults to root when unset.
value
string
The value to set this variable to.
Required if state=present.

Examples

- name: Ensure entry like "[email protected]" exists
  community.general.cronvar:
    name: EMAIL
    value: [email protected]

- name: Ensure a variable does not exist. This may remove any variable named "LEGACY"
  community.general.cronvar:
    name: LEGACY
    state: absent

- name: Add a variable to a file under /etc/cron.d
  community.general.cronvar:
    name: LOGFILE
    value: /var/log/yum-autoupdate.log
    user: root
    cron_file: ansible_yum-autoupdate

Authors

  • Doug Luce (@dougluce)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/cronvar_module.html