cron

The legacy method of running crontab jobs from files located at /var/spool/cron (edited using ‘crontab -e’) is slowly giving way to files located in /etc/cron.d. This way of creating a file entry for each job is easily handled by Ansible using the cron module as shown below. – name: Creates a cron file under /etc/cron.d … Ansible: creating a cron.d file for periodic system jobs