Defined Type: cron::hourly

Defined in:
manifests/hourly.pp

Summary

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

Overview

Examples:

create a daily cron job with custom PATH environment variable

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) —

    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.

  • 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.



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# File 'manifests/hourly.pp', line 16

define cron::hourly (
  Optional[String[1]] $command     = undef,
  Cron::Job_ensure    $ensure      = 'present',
  Cron::Minute        $minute      = 0,
  Cron::Environment   $environment = [],
  Cron::User          $user        = 'root',
  Stdlib::Filemode    $mode        = '0600',
  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,
  }
}