--- - name: Create a cronjob to patch dev instances hosts: controller tasks: - name: Schedule cron ansible.builtin.cron: name: This cronjob is scheduled by Ansible minute: "15" hour: "12" day: "*" month: "*" weekday: "3" user: ec2-user job: "/home/jwelby/ansible/sub-playbooks/ansible-playbook -i dev-hosts /home/jwelby/ansible/sub-playbooks/patching.yml" state: present
crontab -l 30 15 * * 3 /home/jwelby/ansible/sub-playbooks/patching.yaml crond.service is active and running Thanks! John On Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 10:56:07 AM UTC-4 Will McDonald wrote: > More information would be helpful here. > > 1. Can you share your usage of ansible.builtin.cron? > 2. Can you share the output of crontab -l for the user you're creating the > cron job for/as, or the contents of /etc/crontab and/or /etc/cron.* ? > 3. What's in your cronlog or systemd journal? > 4. Obvious question but you do have a vixie cron variant installed and the > appropriate services started? > > > On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 at 15:26, John Welby <marze...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> All, >> >> Can a playbook be run by 'job', i.e. instead of a script. >> >> I created a playbook that creates an entry in crontab, which it does >> successfully, but it does not execute the playbook I specified in job: >> >> Thanks! >> >> John >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ansible Project" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to ansible-proje...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/34c698f9-be82-4e15-a486-3dddb5ebf3ecn%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/34c698f9-be82-4e15-a486-3dddb5ebf3ecn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/d31172bf-3b3a-4749-882f-437e0401d345n%40googlegroups.com.