Brian,

That's great - thank you!  I've made the change and that's just what I'm 
after.

Regards

On Thursday, 11 June 2015 15:25:38 UTC+1, Colin Phillips wrote:
>
> 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
>

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