# New to ansible so please be gentle - running ansible-playbook via crontab **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [May 15, 2019, 11:30am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-to-ansible-so-please-be-gentle-running-ansible-playbook-via-crontab/30338 "2019-05-15T11:30:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tariq\_Hasan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Tariq\_Hasan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tariq_Hasan)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 11:30am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-to-ansible-so-please-be-gentle-running-ansible-playbook-via-crontab/30338/1 "2019-05-15T11:30:06Z")
Hi Please find below my playbook - name: Patch the server and Reboot hosts: tariq-test tasks: - name: Patch the server become: yes become\_user: root tags: Patch shell: “yum -y update” exclude: kernel\*,mongo\* register: patchresult - name: Reboot the server tags: reboot become: yes become\_user: root shell: “sleep 5 && reboot” async: 1 poll: 0 - name: Wait for the reboot and reconnect wait\_for: port: 22 host: ‘{{ (ansible\_ssh\_host|default(ansible\_host))|default(inventory\_hostname) }}’ search\_regex: OpenSSH delay: 10 timeout: 60 connection: local - name: Check the Uptime of the servers shell: “uptime” register: Uptime - debug: var=Uptime I would like to able to run this via cron, but whenever I try, the job starts, according to the cron log, but doesn’t actually do anything. I’ve tried allsorts, nothing works. 07 11 \* \* \* /bin/ansible-playbook /etc/ansible/playbooks/reboot.yml \>\> /var/tmp/reboot.log \>/dev/null 2\>&1 06 12 \* \* \* if ! out=`ansible-playbook /etc/ansible/playbooks/reboot.yml`; then echo $out; fi 14 12 \* \* \* /bin/ansible-playbook /etc/ansible/playbooks/reboot.yml \>\> /var/tmp/reboot.log \>/dev/null 2\>&1 Any ideas please? Regards Tariq ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Lozada\_De\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Jonathan\_Lozada\_De\_L](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jonathan_Lozada_De_L)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 11:39am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-to-ansible-so-please-be-gentle-running-ansible-playbook-via-crontab/30338/2 "2019-05-15T11:39:06Z")
what version of ansible are you on? Regardless, you should use the yum module [https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/yum\_module.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/yum_module.html) and ( if on 2.7) [https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/reboot\_module.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/reboot_module.html). Should be able to work better and handled everything you described. I suggest you make sure it actually works first. ---
**Author:** ![Tariq\_Hasan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Tariq\_Hasan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tariq_Hasan)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 11:53am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-to-ansible-so-please-be-gentle-running-ansible-playbook-via-crontab/30338/3 "2019-05-15T11:53:42Z")
2.7.5 I’ll look at the links you sent. Thanks