Defined Type: cron::daily

Defined in:

manifests/daily.pp

Summary

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

Overview

Examples:

create a daily cron job with custom PATH environment variable

cron::daily { 'mysql_backup':
  minute      => '1',
  hour        => '3',
  environment => [ 'PATH="/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"' ],
  command     => 'mysqldump -u root my_db >/backups/my_db.sql',
}

Parameters:

• command (Optional[String[1]]) (defaults to: undef) —

  The command to execute.

• ensure (Cron::Job_ensure) (defaults to: 'present') —

  The state to ensure this resource exists in. Can be absent, present.

• minute (Cron::Minute) (defaults to: 0) —

  The minute the cron job should fire on. Can be any valid cron.

• hour (Cron::Hour) (defaults to: 0) —

  The hour the cron job should fire on. Can be any valid cron hour value.

• environment (Cron::Environment) (defaults to: []) —

  An array of environment variable settings.

• user (Cron::User) (defaults to: 'root') —

  The user the cron job should be executed as.

• mode (Stdlib::Filemode) (defaults to: '0600') —

  The mode to set on the created job file.

• description (Optional[String]) (defaults to: undef) —

  Optional short description, which will be included in the cron job file.

# File 'manifests/daily.pp', line 18

define cron::daily (
  Optional[String[1]] $command     = undef,
  Cron::Job_ensure    $ensure      = 'present',
  Cron::Minute        $minute      = 0,
  Cron::Hour          $hour        = 0,
  Cron::Environment   $environment = [],
  Cron::User          $user        = 'root',
  Stdlib::Filemode    $mode        = '0600',
  Optional[String]    $description = undef,
) {
  cron::job { $title:
    ensure      => $ensure,
    minute      => $minute,
    hour        => $hour,
    date        => '*',
    month       => '*',
    weekday     => '*',
    user        => $user,
    environment => $environment,
    mode        => $mode,
    command     => $command,
    description => $description,
  }
}