Also the file name extensions are different (yml vs yaml). Are we looking at some copy paste errors?
On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 at 18:18, 'Rowe, Walter P. (Fed)' via Ansible Project < ansible-project@googlegroups.com> wrote: > job: "/home/jwelby/ansible/sub-playbooks/ansible-playbook -i > dev-hosts /home/jwelby/ansible/sub-playbooks/patching.yml" > > > > 30 15 * * 3 /home/jwelby/ansible/sub-playbooks/patching.yaml > > > These don't match. cron isn't running ansible-playbook. It is trying to > run the YAML file itself. > > Walter > -- > Walter Rowe, Division Chief > Infrastructure Services, OISM > Mobile: 202.355.4123 > > On Apr 19, 2023, at 12:08 PM, John Welby <marzett...@gmail.com> wrote: > > --- > - 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 > . > > -- > 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 > . > > > -- > 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/DFE1A099-5F3B-4992-8993-CB0B03F7BD26%40nist.gov > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/DFE1A099-5F3B-4992-8993-CB0B03F7BD26%40nist.gov?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- 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/CAF8BbLaBDKL8e1jOoSnQHta472ytysdWzbMnhy%2Bjqjxx9O0OBw%40mail.gmail.com.
