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Installs cron

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cron Cookbook

Installs the cron package and starts the crond service.

Requirements

Platforms

RHEL family
Debian family
Solaris family
FreeBSD

Chef

Chef 12.1+

Cookbooks

none

Resources and Providers

`cron_d`

The cron_d LWRP can be used to manage files in /etc/cron.d. It supports the same interface as Chef's built-in cron resource:

cron_d 'daily-usage-report' do
  minute  0
  hour    23
  command '/srv/app/scripts/daily_report'
  user    'appuser'
end

Note: FreeBSD does not support cron.d functionality, so it is emulated. cron fragments are created in /etc/cron.d, then they are concatenated together into /etc/crontab. FreeBSD puts some core OS functionality into /etc/crontab, so the original file is copied to /etc/crontab.os_source, and included in the concatenation.

Note: This LWRP does not function on Solaris platforms because they do not support running jobs stored in /etc/cron.d. Any Solaris users are welcome to test the emulate_cron.d functionality that was implemented for FreeBSD. See defaults/attributes.rb for more information.

Attributes

minute, hour, day, month, weekday - schedule your cron job. These correspond exactly to their equivalents in the crontab file. All default to "*".
predefined_value - schedule your cron job with one of the special predefined value instead of ** * pattern. This correspond to "@reboot", "@yearly", "@annually", "@monthly", "@weekly", "@daily", "@midnight" or "@hourly".
command - the command to run. Required.
user - the user to run as. Defaults to "root".
mailto, path, home, shell - set the corresponding environment variables in the cron.d file. No default.
environment - a Hash containing additional arbitrary environment variables under which the cron job will be run (similar to the shell LWRP). No default.
mode - the octal mode of the generated crontab file. Defaults to 0644.

Definitions

`cron_manage`

The cron_manage definition can be used to manage the /etc/cron.allow and /etc/cron.deny files. Incude this cookbook as dependency to your cookbook and execute the definition as:

The following will add the user mike to the /etc/cron.allow file:

cron_manage 'mike' do
  user   'mike'
  action :allow
end

The following will add the user john to the /etc/cron.deny file:

cron_manage 'john' do
  user  'john'  #optional, resource name will be used if not specified.
  action :deny  #optional, deny is the default
end

Attributes

user - username that you want to control (optional).
action - :allow or :deny. :deny is the default.

License & Authors

Author:: Cookbook Engineering Team (cookbooks@chef.io)

Copyright 2010-2016, Chef Software, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

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WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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Dependent cookbooks

This cookbook has no specified dependencies.

Contingent cookbooks

cron Cookbook CHANGELOG

This file is used to list changes made in each version of the cron cookbook.

3.0.0 (2016-10-06)

Remove support for Arch and Gentoo as we lack the ability to test these platforms
Fix the installation of the core-os package on Solaris

2.0.0 (2016-09-15)

Update supported OS releases in the readme
Switch to kitchen-dokken and test on more platforms
Resolve foodcritic warnings
Split out unit testing in travis and use the rakefile with cookstyle
Require chef 12.1
Properly define the chefspec matcher
Use multipackage for installs

v1.7.6 (2016-03-23)

Cleanup the cron.d jobs with the non-santized filenames to prevent duplicate job jobs if cron < 1.7.4 was ever run on the node

v1.7.5 (2016-03-01)

Fixes '* is not valid value for validate_numeric' errors

v1.7.4 (2016-02-16)

Sanitize cron job names in the custom resource to replace '.' with '-'

v1.7.3 (2015-12-20)

Re-release to remove DS Store file that snuck in

v1.7.2 (2015-12-14)

Fixed the inability to delete a cron job without specifying the command. Expanded tests to cover this scenario and the create_if_missing action

v1.7.1 (2015-12-11)

#65 - Added action create_if_missing for cron jobs you want to create, but not modify later

v1.7.0 (2015-10-05)

Added Arch Linux support
Added FreeBSD support, which emulates /etc/cron.d folder support and builds a single /etc/crontab file using the contents of /etc/cron.d
Ensure that the cron package is installed on Debian based systems
Updated Kitchen CI to use new format and additional platforms
Added standard Rubocop config for Chef managed cookbooks and resolved all warnings
Added Travis CI testing for foodcritic, rubocop, and chefspec
Added Serverspec tests for Kitchen CI
Updated Berkfile to the latest format
Updated contributing and testing documentation
Updated Gemfile dependencies to the latest releases of testing gems
Removed pre-1.9 Ruby hash rocket syntax
Added maintainers.md and maintainers.toml files
Added cookbook version and Travis CI badges to the readme
Clarified that the minimum supported Chef release is 11.0
Added a Rakefile for easier testing
Added chefignore file to limit what files are uploaded to the Chef server
Added long_description to the metadata.rb file
Added source_url and issues_url to the metadata.rb file for Supermarket
Updated Chefspec for 4.X format

v1.6.1 (2014-10-15)

[#48] fix typo apry -> apr

v1.6.0 (2014-09-24)

[36] Add environment parameter to LWRP
[38] Allow user to specify file permissions

v1.5.0 (2014-09-15)

[#25] Fixes NameError exception on :delete
[#33] Updates README
[#40] Fixes local test-kitchen config
[#20] Implements a comment for cron_d provider

v1.4.3 (2014-09-09)

[#46] Fixes a broken case statement causing cron_d to fail

v1.4.2 (2014-09-08)

[#31] Fix up validate_month for Fixnums
[#32] Fix upvalidate_dow for Fixnums

v1.4.0 (2014-05-07)

[COOK-4628] Adding cron_manage to allow or deny users

v1.3.12 (2014-04-23)

[COOK-4550] - cron_d resource sometimes does not print the time in the cron output
PR #23 fix validate month and dow
Updating test harness, adding specs

v1.3.10 (2014-04-10)

[COOK-4507] - restore ability to use @ fields

v1.3.8 (2014-04-10)

[COOK-4544] fixing NameError exception on :delete action

v1.3.6 (2014-04-09)

[COOK-4337] fixing validations

v1.3.4 (2014-04-09)

Reverting [COOK-4337] - cron cookbook does no input validation

v1.3.2 (2014-03-27)

[COOK-4337] - cron cookbook does no input validation
[COOK-4229] - Support the Gentoo package

v1.3.0 (2014-02-25)

New Feature

COOK-4112 - Solaris 11 support for cron

Bug

COOK-3813 - Add metadata for recipes in the cron cookbook

v1.2.8

Bug

COOK-3452 - Add support for raspbian platform

v1.2.6

Improvement

COOK-3005 - Remove blankline in template

v1.2.4

[COOK-3058]: simplify conditionals in cron recipe

v1.2.2

[COOK1829] - cron_d LWRPtemplate should imply cron cookbook by default

v1.2.0

[COOK-938] - don't default to upgrading cron and fix rhel6 package name
[COOK-1622] - add LWRP for cron.d files

v1.0.4

[COOK-1514] - Cron cookbook manages wrong service name on SuSE

v1.0.0

[COOK-1124] - add RHEL platform support

Collaborator Number Metric

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Foodcritic Metric

3.0.0 failed this metric

FC015: Consider converting definition to a Custom Resource: /tmp/3a1cb3ae18c4ad6126248a98/cron/definitions/manage.rb:1

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Requirements

Platforms

Chef

Cookbooks

Resources and Providers

cron_d

Attributes

Definitions

cron_manage

Attributes

License & Authors

Dependent cookbooks

Contingent cookbooks

cron Cookbook CHANGELOG

3.0.0 (2016-10-06)

2.0.0 (2016-09-15)

v1.7.6 (2016-03-23)

v1.7.5 (2016-03-01)

v1.7.4 (2016-02-16)

v1.7.3 (2015-12-20)

v1.7.2 (2015-12-14)

v1.7.1 (2015-12-11)

v1.7.0 (2015-10-05)

v1.6.1 (2014-10-15)

v1.6.0 (2014-09-24)

v1.5.0 (2014-09-15)

v1.4.3 (2014-09-09)

v1.4.2 (2014-09-08)

v1.4.0 (2014-05-07)

v1.3.12 (2014-04-23)

v1.3.10 (2014-04-10)

v1.3.8 (2014-04-10)

v1.3.6 (2014-04-09)

v1.3.4 (2014-04-09)

v1.3.2 (2014-03-27)

v1.3.0 (2014-02-25)

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v1.2.8

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v1.2.6

Improvement

v1.2.4

v1.2.2

v1.2.0

v1.0.4

v1.0.0

Collaborator Number Metric 3.0.0 passed this metric

Foodcritic Metric 3.0.0 failed this metric FC015: Consider converting definition to a Custom Resource: /tmp/3a1cb3ae18c4ad6126248a98/cron/definitions/manage.rb:1

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Updated October 6, 2016 Created on August 19, 2010

Supported Platforms

License

`cron_d`

`cron_manage`

Collaborator Number Metric

3.0.0 passed this metric

Foodcritic Metric

3.0.0 failed this metric

FC015: Consider converting definition to a Custom Resource: /tmp/3a1cb3ae18c4ad6126248a98/cron/definitions/manage.rb:1