* Change example syntax on authorized_key module
* Change example syntax on cron module
* Change example syntax on group module
* Change example syntax on hostname module
* Change example syntax on seboolean module
* Change example syntax on selinux module
* Change example syntax on service module
* Change example syntax on sysctl module
* Change example syntax on systemd module
* Change example syntax on user module
* Change example syntax on debug module
* Change example syntax on fail module
* Change example syntax on include module
* Change example syntax on include_role module
* Change example syntax on include_vars module
* Change example syntax on pause module
* Change example syntax on wait_for module
* Change example syntax on apache2_module module
* > Change example syntax on django_manage module
* Change example syntax on htpasswd module
* updated `find_job` method to find by exact match of job, when no matching header comment is found
* note this fallback injects a header comment for later calls to `update_job` or `remove_job`
* abstracted header comment building to `do_comment` method
Fixes#3256
Records whether existing cron file (or CRONCMD output) has a terminating newline, and ensures a trailing newline is written as necessary EVEN IF NO CHANGE WAS MADE to the target env/job
Fixes#2316
os.getlogin() returns the user logged in on the controlling terminal. However
'crontab' only looks for the login name of the process' real user id which
pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0] does provide.
While in most cases there is no difference, the former might fail under certain
circumstances (e.g. a lxc container connected by attachment without login),
throwing the error 'OSError: [Errno 25] Inappropriate ioctl for device'.
Currently, when writing user's crontab, ansible calls
crontab <file> -u <user>
This is incorrect according to crontab(1) on both FreeBSD and Linux,
which suggest that file argument should be the last.
At least on FreeBSD, this leads to incorrect cron module bahavior which
writes to root's crontab instead of users's
Support specifying an absolute path (typically /etc/crontab) rather than
a path relative to /etc/cron.d, to allow modifying the main system crontab.
Particularly useful for target systems that have /etc/crontab but no
/etc/cron.d.
I have a task like this in a playbook. The ansible_ssh_user is 'root'
for this host.
- cron:
hour: 00
job: /home/backup/backup.sh
name: baserock.org data backup
user: backup
Running it gave me the following error:
TASK: [backup cron job, runs every day at midnight] ***************************
failed: [baserock-backup1] => {"failed": true}
msg: crontab: can't open '/tmp/crontabvVjoZe': Permission denied
crontab: user backup cannot read /tmp/crontabvVjoZe
The temporary file created by the 'cron' module is created with the
Python tempfile.mkstemp() function. This creates a file that is readable
only by 'root' (mode 600). The Busybox `crontab` program then checks if
the file is readable by the 'backup' user, and fails if it isn't. So we
need to make sure the file is world-readable before running `crontab`.