NirvanaSNM / Edit_Cron

Ansible playbook to edit a Cron job

Edit_Cron

This Ansible playbook disables the logrotate logs for the logrefresh.sh script on AWS hosts.

Requirements:

• Ansible 2.9 or higher

Usage:

ansible-playbook -i hosts disable_logrefresh_sh_logs.yml

Example:

ansible-playbook -i hosts -l my_aws_hosts disable_logrefresh_sh_logs.yml

How it works:

The playbook first checks if the mstr_logrefresh_sh_logs_disabled fact is set. If it is not set, the playbook checks if the logrefresh.sh.log cron job is present. If it is, the playbook removes the cron job.

The playbook then creates a new cron job that runs the logrefresh.sh script with no logs. The cron job is configured to run every 5 minutes.

Finally, the playbook restarts the cron service to ensure that the new cron job is picked up.

Notes:

• The playbook is only configured to run on AWS hosts. The when clause in the tasks section ensures that the tasks are only executed if the ansible_facts['mstr_cloud_provider'] variable is equal to AWS.
• The cacheable option in the set_fact task ensures that the mstr_logrefresh_sh_logs_disabled fact is only calculated once. This can improve performance if the playbook is run multiple times.