I need to write an Ansible Playbook that configures a linux machine to routinely prune files in /etc/dummy/ older than 1 hour in a configurable interval as a configurable user
So, this is what I tried. But I am having some difficulties. So before actually running this in production, I need to verify if the interval is correct. i.e that the script will run every 2 hours. And I need to make sure the cronjob will be created and will be persisted even after a system reboot.
---
- hosts: servers
vars:
olderthan: 1
intervals: 120 # needs to run every 2 hours, everyday
user: tdp
scriptpath: /etc/tmp/pruner.sh
tasks:
- name: Copy the file
copy:
src: "{{ scriptpath }}"
dest: "{{ scriptpath }}"
- name: "The Dummy Pruner"
cron:
name: "Prune the items at /etc/dummy"
user: "{{ user }}"
minute: "{{ intervals }}"
hour: "*"
day: "*"
weekday: "*"
month: "*"
job: "sh {{ scriptpath }} >> {{ scriptpath }}/results.log 2>&1"
state: present
and my /etc/tmp/pruner.sh looks like this:
#!/bin/bash
find /etc/dummy -name '*.*' -mmin 60 -delete > /dev/null
Can someone help me figure out the above issues?
CodePudding user response：
Workaround can be putting complete line into the crontab by using module lineinfile or blockinfile if you need to put much more rather than one line.
CodePudding user response：
According the documentation cron - Manage cron.d and crontab entries the Parameter for minute needs to be 0-59. You may have a look into the there given Examples.
Instead of describing the interval with 120 minutes for minute you need to describe it with every 2 hour */2 for hour.
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