DESCRIPTION
This cdist type allows you to manage entries in a users crontab.
REQUIRED PARAMETERS
OPTIONAL PARAMETERS
- state
- Either present or absent. Defaults to present.
- minute
- See crontab(5). Defaults to *
- hour
- See crontab(5). Defaults to *
- day_of_month
- See crontab(5). Defaults to *
- month
- See crontab(5). Defaults to *
- day_of_week
- See crontab(5). Defaults to *
- raw
- Take whatever the user has given instead of time and date fields. If given, all other time and date fields are ignored. Can for example be used to specify cron EXTENSIONS like reboot, yearly etc. See crontab(5) for the extensions if any that your cron implementation implements.
- raw_command
- Take whatever the user has given in the command and ignore everything else. If given, the command will be added to crontab. Can for example be used to define variables like SHELL or MAILTO.
EXAMPLES
# run Monday to Saturday at 23:15 __cron some-id --user root --command "/path/to/script" \ --hour 23 --minute 15 --day_of_week 1-6 # run on reboot __cron some-id --user root --command "/path/to/script" \ --raw @reboot # remove cronjob __cron some-id --user root --command "/path/to/script" --state absent # define default shell __cron some-id --user root --raw_command --command "SHELL=/bin/bash" \ --state present
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
Steven Armstrong <steven-cdist--@--armstrong.cc>
COPYING
Copyright (C) 2011-2013 Steven Armstrong. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
COPYRIGHT
ungleich GmbH 2019