Defined Type: cron::hourly

Defined in:
manifests/hourly.pp

Overview

Type: cron::hourly

This type creates an hourly cron job via a file in /etc/cron.d

Parameters:

ensure - The state to ensure this resource exists in. Can be absent, present
  Defaults to 'present'
minute - The minute the cron job should fire on. Can be any valid cron
minute value.
  Defaults to '0'.
environment - An array of environment variable settings.
  Defaults to an empty set ([]).
mode - The mode to set on the created job file.
  Defaults to 0644.
user - The user the cron job should be executed as.
  Defaults to 'root'.
description - Optional short description, which will be included in the
cron job file.
  Defaults to undef.
command - The command to execute.

Actions:

Requires:

Sample Usage:

cron::hourly { 'generate_puppetdoc':
  minute      => '1',
  environment => [ 'PATH="/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"' ],
  command     => 'puppet doc >/var/www/puppet_docs.mkd',
}

Parameters:

  • command (Optional[String[1]]) (defaults to: undef)
  • ensure (Cron::Job_ensure) (defaults to: 'present')
  • minute (Cron::Minute) (defaults to: 0)
  • environment (Cron::Environment) (defaults to: [])
  • user (Cron::User) (defaults to: 'root')
  • mode (Cron::Mode) (defaults to: '0644')
  • description (Optional[String]) (defaults to: undef) 


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# File 'manifests/hourly.pp', line 33

define cron::hourly (
  Optional[String[1]] $command     = undef,
  Cron::Job_ensure    $ensure      = 'present',
  Cron::Minute        $minute      = 0,
  Cron::Environment   $environment = [],
  Cron::User          $user        = 'root',
  Cron::Mode          $mode        = '0644',
  Optional[String]    $description = undef,
) {

  cron::job { $title:
    ensure      => $ensure,
    minute      => $minute,
    hour        => '*',
    date        => '*',
    month       => '*',
    weekday     => '*',
    user        => $user,
    environment => $environment,
    mode        => $mode,
    command     => $command,
    description => $description,
  }

}