Syntax Error while loading YAML script, cron.yml

[Chris Olido]

I am creating a cron playbook, my code is as follow.

- - - - -

# Creates an entry like "* 5,2 * * ls -alh > /dev/null"

- cron: name="daily_stats" hour="* 12 * * *" job="/home/ec2-user/send_report_stats.sh"

and change to 

# Creates an entry like "* 5,2 * * ls -alh > /dev/null"

- Name Creates cron job to run the reports.

  cron: name="daily_stats" hour="* 12 * * *" job="/home/ec2-user/send_report_stats.sh"

- - - - - 

SNOTRA:TimePhone chrisolido$ ansible-playbook -i hosts cron.yml --check

ERROR: Syntax Error while loading YAML script, cron.yml

Note: The error may actually appear before this position: line 11, column 87

# Creates an entry like "* 5,2 * * ls -alh > /dev/null"

- cron: name="daily_stats" hour="* 12 * * *" job="/home/ec2-user/send_report_stats.sh"

                                                                                      ^

We could be wrong, but this one looks like it might be an issue with 

unbalanced quotes.  If starting a value with a quote, make sure the 

line ends with the same set of quotes.  For instance this arbitrary 

example:

    foo: "bad" "wolf"

Could be written as:

    foo: '"bad" "wolf"'

I tried following the example always having the same error.

TIA,

Chris

[Michael DeHaan]

I'm missing the following example part you tried, but when you have:

- cron: name="daily_stats" hour="* 12 * * *" job="/home/ec2-user/send_report_stats.sh"

One of these is:

- cron: 'name="daily_stats" hour="* 12 * * *" job="/home/ec2-user/send_report_stats.sh"'

Or even:

- cron: 

      name: "daily_stats" 

      hour: "* 12 * * *" 

      job: "/home/ec2-user/send_report_stats.sh"

Which can be simplified to:

- cron: 

      name: daily_stats

      hour: "* 12 * * *"

      job: /home/ec2-user/send_report_stats.sh

Though the simplest thing is to just leave off quotes:

- cron: name=daily_stats hour="* 12 * * *" job=/home/ec2-user/send_report_stats.sh

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