# Cron job issues **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [June 11, 2015, 2:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cron-job-issues/18470 "2015-06-11T14:23:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Colin\_Phillips](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Colin\_Phillips](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Colin_Phillips)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 2:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cron-job-issues/18470/1 "2015-06-11T14:23:57Z")
All, I’m currently trying to compose a playbook to remove log files that are older than 90 days and then gzip the remaining files that are older than 7 days. I’m attempting to use the cron module of Ansible to do this but havign a bit of trouble. Here’s what I’ve done so far: Created a job in my main.yml file ` - name: Cron job to purge log files older than 90 days and gzip files on a daily rotation cron: minute=“59” hour=“23” weekday=“\*” name=“freeradius log file rotation” cron\_file=“freeradius” user=“root” job=“/etc/cron.d/freeradius” tags: - cronradius ` My cron\_file (freeradius) looks like this: `find /var/log/freeradius/radacct/ -mtime +90 -print0 | xargs -0 rm && find /var/log/freeradius/radacct/ -type f -mtime +7 -print0 | xargs -0 gzip` When I run the playbook against a server it copies the freeradius file across to /etc/cron.d/freeradius but when I “type” the contents of that file it displays: ` 59 23 \* \* \* root /etc/cron.d/freeradius ` and as a result I think this is incorrect, it appears to not be referencing the find command… Any ideas what I am doing wrong? Regards Colin ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cron-job-issues/18470/2 "2015-06-11T14:29:38Z")
job is the command to execute, here you are making it the same as the cron file itself. You either want to make this a copy (since you already wrote out the cron job) or job='find /var/log/freeradius/radacct/ -mtime +90 -print0 | xargs -0 rm && find /var/log/freeradius/radacct/ -type f -mtime +7 -print0 | xargs -0 gzip' ---
**Author:** ![Colin\_Phillips](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Colin\_Phillips](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Colin_Phillips)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cron-job-issues/18470/3 "2015-06-11T14:38:50Z")
Brian, That’s great - thank you! I’ve made the change and that’s just what I’m after. Regards