cron - Manage cron.d and crontab entries

See also

• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/cron_module.html

• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/modules/system/cron.py

Synopsis

• Use this module to manage crontab and environment variables entries. This module allows you to create environment variables and named crontab entries, update, or delete them.

• When crontab jobs are managed: the module includes one line with the description of the crontab entry #Ansible: <name> corresponding to the name passed to the module, which is used by future ansible/module calls to find/check the state.

  The name parameter should be unique, and changing the name value will result in a new cron task being created (or a different one being removed).

• When environment variables are managed: no comment line is added, but, when the module needs to find/check the state, it uses the name parameter to find the environment variable definition line.

• When using symbols such as %, they must be properly escaped.