NAME

       cdist-type__cron - Installs and manages cron jobs

DESCRIPTION

       This cdist type allows you to manage entries in a users crontab.

REQUIRED PARAMETERS

       user   The user who's crontab is edited

       command
              The command to run.

OPTIONAL PARAMETERS

       NOTE:   All   time-related   parameters  (--minute,  --hour,  --day_of_month  --month  and
       --day_of_week) defaults to *, which means to execute it always. If you  set  --hour  0  to
       execute  the  cronjob  only at midnight, it will execute every minute in the first hour of
       the morning all days.

       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

       crontab(5)

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 2021