Role ton configure cron daemon

Ansible role to configure cron Daemon.

Informations:

This role only purpose is to configure Cron deamon not to configure cronjobs (the Ansible builtin exists for that).

Role Variables

Variable	Description	Default
cron_extra_options	options for cron daemon	''
cron_restart_when_changed	If True: restart cron when configuration is changed	'true'
crond_package	Name of cron daemon package	'cron'
crond_service	Name of cron draemon service	'cron'
crond_configuration_file	configuration file for cron daemon	'/etc/default/cron'

Cron options

Extra options for cron, see cron(8)

For ewample:

       -f      Stay in foreground mode, don't daemonize.

       -l      Enable  LSB  compliant  names  for  /etc/cron.d  files.  This  setting,  however,  does  not  affect  the parsing of files under /etc/cron.hourly, /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.weekly or
               /etc/cron.monthly.

       -n      Include the FQDN in the subject when sending mails. By default, cron will abbreviate the hostname.

       -L loglevel
               Tell cron what to log about jobs (errors are logged regardless of this value) as the sum of the following values:
                   1      will log the start of all cron jobs
                   2      will log the end of all cron jobs
                   4      will log all failed jobs (exit status != 0)
                   8      will log the process number of all cron jobs
               The default is to log the start of all jobs (1). Logging will be disabled if levels is set to zero (0). A value of fifteen (15) will select all options.

Example Playbook

- name: Configure extra options for cron daemon
  hosts: fqdn
  gather_facts: true
  become: true
  vars:
    crond_extra_options: "-n"
  roles:
    - ansible-role-cron-service
  tags: ['crond']

ansible-playbook -i fqdn, example_playbook.yml -D

Author Information

Written by Nicolas de Ferrières on the behalf of Deveryware.