ansible cron with 2.8rc3

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HI!

I'm testing my ansible roles with ansible 2.8rc3.
The roles work with ansible 2.7.10.

This cron task fails with 2.8rc3 using Python 2.7.16 (see details
attached at message end):

- name: "Remove obsolete CRON jobs from /etc/cron.d/aedir_tools"
  cron:
    name: "{{ item }}"
    state: absent
    cron_file: aedir_tools
  with_items:
    - aedirpwd_cron
    - aedirpwd_expiry_check

What's wrong with that?

Ciao, Michael.

-------------------------------- snip --------------------------------
The full traceback is:
WARNING: The below traceback may *not* be related to the actual failure.
  File
"/tmp/ansible_cron_payload_HHWGrW/ansible_cron_payload.zip/ansible/module_utils/basic.py",
line 1529, in _check_required_by
    check_required_by(spec, param)
  File
"/tmp/ansible_cron_payload_HHWGrW/ansible_cron_payload.zip/ansible/module_utils/common/validation.py",
line 164, in check_required_by
    raise TypeError(to_native(msg))

failed: [ae-dir-suse-p1.virtnet1.stroeder.local] (item=aedirpwd_cron) =>
{
    "ansible_loop_var": "item",
    "changed": false,
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "backup": false,
            "cron_file": "aedir_tools",
            "day": "*",
            "disabled": false,
            "hour": "*",
            "minute": "*",
            "month": "*",
            "name": "aedirpwd_cron",
            "reboot": false,
            "state": "absent",
            "weekday": "*"
        }
    },
    "item": "aedirpwd_cron",
    "msg": "missing parameter(s) required by 'cron_file': user"
}

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I'm testing my ansible roles with ansible 2.8rc3.
The roles work with ansible 2.7.10.

This cron task fails with 2.8rc3 using Python 2.7.16 (see details
attached at message end):

- name: "Remove obsolete CRON jobs from /etc/cron.d/aedir_tools"
   cron:
     name: "{{ item }}"
     state: absent
     cron_file: aedir_tools
   with_items:
     - aedirpwd_cron
     - aedirpwd_expiry_check

What's wrong with that?

<snip />

     "msg": "missing parameter(s) required by 'cron_file': user"
}

As the message say you are missing the user parameter, per documentation this is required.

That said, the user parameter is irrelevant when state is absent so I would call this a bug.

3

Here is the culprit PR
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/28662

4

Hmm, should I file a bug?

Ciao, Michael.

5

yes, please do