Re: [ansible-project] Schedule Playbook with crontab

you are right, Thanks On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 7:42 AM, Brian Coca wrote: > That was a 'cron tab entry' .. not really an ansible thing, but a cron > one. Before attempting such a task, you should get familiar with cron. > > > > > > -- > -- > Brian Coca > > -- > You

Re: [ansible-project] Schedule Playbook with crontab

That was a 'cron tab entry' .. not really an ansible thing, but a cron one. Before attempting such a task, you should get familiar with cron. -- -- Brian Coca -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from

Re: [ansible-project] Schedule Playbook with crontab

Brian, Please pardon my question it may sound stupid but i really want to learn this but dont have a grasp of this yet as i am very new to linux, where do i place this command " 0 4 * * * /usr/bin/ansible-playbook /path/to/mybackupplay.yml " is it going to be a file or i run it on the

Re: [ansible-project] Schedule Playbook with crontab

ansible-playbook is a 'unix command line utility' you can schedule it in cron as you would do any other, just pass it the options it needs: 0 4 * * * /usr/bin/ansible-playbook /path/to/mybackupplay.yml Also, you can make your play an 'executable script' by setting the x permission bits on

Re: [ansible-project] Schedule Playbook with crontab

I am newbie at this, i know how to setup ansible playbooks and run them but i dont know how to schedule a task like backing up cisco configs like you are trying to do here. I dont know Crontab, how do i set it up and also does it use scripts as well? Please provide details. thank you! On

Re: [ansible-project] Schedule Playbook with crontab

On Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at 6:08:25 PM UTC+2, Brian Coca wrote: > > bin/ansible is for Adhoc tasks, you want bin/ansible-playbook is for > executing playbooks > > this makes no sense: > /usr/bin/ansible /home/ansibleuser/ansible/playbooks/ansible-playbook > device_bak_2.yml > > I think

Re: [ansible-project] Schedule Playbook with crontab

Thank you so much Brian, it works perfectly. On Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at 6:08:25 PM UTC+2, Brian Coca wrote: > > bin/ansible is for Adhoc tasks, you want bin/ansible-playbook is for > executing playbooks > > this makes no sense: > /usr/bin/ansible

Re: [ansible-project] Schedule Playbook with crontab

bin/ansible is for Adhoc tasks, you want bin/ansible-playbook is for executing playbooks this makes no sense: /usr/bin/ansible /home/ansibleuser/ansible/playbooks/ansible-playbook device_bak_2.yml I think you want: /usr/bin/ansible-playbook /home/ansibleuser/ansible/playbooks/device_bak_2.yml

[ansible-project] Schedule Playbook with crontab

Hi, I am attempting to schedule a playbook to run every night to backup Cisco network device configs using crontab. The playbook is a simple ios_command task executing show run on the Cisco Devices. The playbook works fine when I run it manually and I have got to the point where crontab is