playbook configuring cron job help

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Hi,

I’m experimenting with ansible to replace puppet, but i’m very new to it and getting a little stuck with setting up a cron job

i have a yaml file like this

2

Hi!

The cron module in 1.2.X had some minor issues, which is much improved in 1.3 code.

If you would like to try 1.3, it’s releasing soon (in about a month) and is quite stable. Just do a git checkout and source ./hacking/env-setup

Alternatively, you could just template the cron file with the template module, or, as I usually do, use the template module to a cron.d file.

–Michael

3

Hello,

thanks for getting back to me.

I’m running 1.3 and just found the test/cron_test.yml file and that comes back with the same error as my attempt when i try and run it.

thanks

4

can you please show me the specific task that failed and the playbook output for that task?

Thanks!

5

Here you go,

ansible-playbook cron_test.yml

PLAY [malweb01] ***************************************************************

TASK: [test 1] ****************************************************************
failed: [malweb01] => {“failed”: true, “parsed”: false}
invalid output was: File “/home/sgoodliff/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1375110498.1-32714460096252/cron”, line 186
except IOError as e:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

FATAL: all hosts have already failed – aborting

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************
to retry, use: --limit @/var/tmp/ansible/cron_test.retry

malweb01 : ok=0 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1

from test/cron_test.yml

tasks:

  • name: test 1
    cron: name=“execution test 1” weekday=“2,3” minute=0 hour=12 user=“sgoodliff” job=“YUMINTERACTIVE=0 /usr/sbin/yum-autoupdate” cron_file=yum-autoupdate state=absent
    tags:
  • cron

Also for example

Perform task: test 2-3 (y/n/c): **********************************************
failed: [malweb01] => {“failed”: true, “parsed”: false}
invalid output was: File “/home/sgoodliff/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1375110798.84-257369986353663/cron”, line 186
except IOError as e:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Thanks again

6

Ah, this is a python 2.4 compliance issue.

It should say except IOError, e:

in the code, I’ll fix it ASAP.

Thanks for catching this!

7

hi,

its working fine for me now

cheers