# Managing crontabs in FreeBSD

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/managing-crontabs-in-freebsd/19068>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [August 20, 2015, 1:11am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/managing-crontabs-in-freebsd/19068 "2015-08-20T01:11:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Francisco\_Reyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b77776/32.png) [@Francisco\_Reyes](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Francisco_Reyes)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 1:11am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/managing-crontabs-in-freebsd/19068/1 "2015-08-20T01:11:37Z")

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From what I can tell, and looking at the cron program in the ansible directory, it does not seem the core cron management knows how to deal with FreeBSD.

Has anyone run into any roles/snippets on managing cron jobs in FreeBSD?

For now I am going to create files in /var/cron/tabs/UserName and see if that works.

crontab -e -u UserName  
… create valid tab  
get content of file and setup in ansible master  
push file to machines where I want crontab