Cron declarations require a number of parameters. The following are the parameters used by Salt to define the various timing values for a cron job:
minute
hour
daymonth
month
dayweek
(0 to 6 are Sunday through Saturday, 7 can also be used for
Sunday)警告
Any timing arguments not specified take a value of *
. This means that
setting hour
to 5
, while not defining the minute
param, will
result in Salt adding a job that will execute every minute between 5 and 6
A.M.!
Additionally, the default user for these states is root
. Therefore, if
the cron job is for another user, it is necessary to specify that user with
the user
parameter.
A long time ago (before 2014.2), when making changes to an existing cron job, the name declaration is the parameter used to uniquely identify the job, so if an existing cron that looks like this:
date > /tmp/crontest:
cron.present:
- user: root
- minute: 5
改变它成为这样:
date > /tmp/crontest:
cron.present:
- user: root
- minute: 7
- hour: 2
存在的cron 将被更新掉,但是如果计划任务内容有改变,那么一个新的cron 将被添加到用户的crontab里面。
The current behavior is still relying on that mechanism, but you can also specify an identifier to identify your crontabs:
date > /tmp/crontest:
cron.present:
- identifier: SUPERCRON
- user: root
- minute: 7
- hour: 2
2014.1.2 新版功能.
And, some months later, you modify it:
superscript > /tmp/crontest:
cron.present:
- identifier: SUPERCRON
- user: root
- minute: 3
- hour: 4
2014.1.2 新版功能.
The old date > /tmp/crontest will be replaced by superscript > /tmp/crontest.
Additionally, Salt also supports running a cron every x minutes
very similarly to the Unix
convention of using */5
to have a job run every five minutes. In Salt, this
looks like:
date > /tmp/crontest:
cron.present:
- user: root
- minute: '*/5'
The job will now run every 5 minutes.
Additionally, the temporal parameters (minute, hour, etc.) can be randomized by
using random
instead of using a specific value. For example, by using the
random
keyword in the minute
parameter of a cron state, the same cron
job can be pushed to hundreds or thousands of hosts, and they would each use a
randomly-generated minute. This can be helpful when the cron job accesses a
network resource, and it is not desirable for all hosts to run the job
concurrently.
/path/to/cron/script:
cron.present:
- user: root
- minute: random
- hour: 2
0.16.0 新版功能.
Since Salt assumes a value of *
for unspecified temporal parameters, adding
a parameter to the state and setting it to random
will change that value
from *
to a randomized numeric value. However, if that field in the cron
entry on the minion already contains a numeric value, then using the random
keyword will not modify it.
Added the opportunity to set a job with a special keyword like '@reboot' or '@hourly'.
/path/to/cron/script:
cron.present:
- user: root
- special: @hourly
The script will be executed every reboot if cron daemon support this option.
/path/to/cron/otherscript:
cron.absent:
- user: root
- special: @daily
This counter part definition will ensure than a job with a special keyword is not set.
salt.states.cron.
absent
(name, user='root', identifier=False, special=None, **kwargs)¶Verifies that the specified cron job is absent for the specified user; only the name is matched when removing a cron job.
salt.states.cron.
env_absent
(name, user='root')¶Verifies that the specified environment variable is absent from the crontab for the specified user
salt.states.cron.
env_present
(name, value=None, user='root')¶Verifies that the specified environment variable is present in the crontab for the specified user.
salt.states.cron.
file
(name, source_hash='', user='root', template=None, context=None, replace=True, defaults=None, backup='', **kwargs)¶Provides file.managed-like functionality (templating, etc.) for a pre-made crontab file, to be assigned to a given user.
The source file to be used as the crontab. This source file can be
hosted on either the salt master server, or on an HTTP or FTP server.
For files hosted on the salt file server, if the file is located on
the master in the directory named spam, and is called eggs, the source
string is salt://spam/eggs
If the file is hosted on a HTTP or FTP server then the source_hash argument is also required
md5=e138491e9d5b97023cea823fe17bac22
salt.states.cron.
present
(name, user='root', minute='*', hour='*', daymonth='*', month='*', dayweek='*', comment=None, commented=False, identifier=False, special=None)¶Verifies that the specified cron job is present for the specified user.
For more advanced information about what exactly can be set in the cron
timing parameters, check your cron system's documentation. Most Unix-like
systems' cron documentation can be found via the crontab man page:
man 5 crontab
.
*
*
*
*
*
The cron job is set commented (prefixed with #DISABLED#
).
Defaults to False.
2016.3.0 新版功能.