ansible cron with 2.8rc3

[Michael Ströder]

HI!

I'm testing my ansible roles with ansible 2.8rc3.
The roles work with ansible 2.7.10.

This cron task fails with 2.8rc3 using Python 2.7.16 (see details
attached at message end):

- name: "Remove obsolete CRON jobs from /etc/cron.d/aedir_tools"
cron:
name: "{{ item }}"
state: absent
cron_file: aedir_tools
with_items:
- aedirpwd_cron
- aedirpwd_expiry_check

What's wrong with that?

Ciao, Michael.

-------------------------------- snip --------------------------------
The full traceback is:
WARNING: The below traceback may *not* be related to the actual failure.
File
"/tmp/ansible_cron_payload_HHWGrW/ansible_cron_payload.zip/ansible/module_utils/basic.py",
line 1529, in _check_required_by
check_required_by(spec, param)
File
"/tmp/ansible_cron_payload_HHWGrW/ansible_cron_payload.zip/ansible/module_utils/common/validation.py",
line 164, in check_required_by
raise TypeError(to_native(msg))

failed: [ae-dir-suse-p1.virtnet1.stroeder.local] (item=aedirpwd_cron) =>
{
"ansible_loop_var": "item",
"changed": false,
"invocation": {
"module_args": {
"backup": false,
"cron_file": "aedir_tools",
"day": "*",
"disabled": false,
"hour": "*",
"minute": "*",
"month": "*",
"name": "aedirpwd_cron",
"reboot": false,
"state": "absent",
"weekday": "*"
}
},
"item": "aedirpwd_cron",
"msg": "missing parameter(s) required by 'cron_file': user"
}

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 11.05.2019 18:38, Michael Ströder wrote:
> I'm testing my ansible roles with ansible 2.8rc3.
> The roles work with ansible 2.7.10.
>
> This cron task fails with 2.8rc3 using Python 2.7.16 (see details
> attached at message end):
>
> - name: "Remove obsolete CRON jobs from /etc/cron.d/aedir_tools"
> cron:
> name: "{{ item }}"
> state: absent
> cron_file: aedir_tools
> with_items:
> - aedirpwd_cron
> - aedirpwd_expiry_check
>
> What's wrong with that?
>

<snip />

> "msg": "missing parameter(s) required by 'cron_file': user"
> }
>

As the message say you are missing the user parameter, per documentation this is required.

That said, the user parameter is irrelevant when state is absent so I would call this a bug.


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[Kai Stian Olstad]

Here is the culprit PR
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/28662


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Kai Stian Olstad

[Michael Ströder]

On 5/11/19 7:37 PM, Kai Stian Olstad wrote:
> On 11.05.2019 19:15, Kai Stian Olstad wrote:
>> On 11.05.2019 18:38, Michael Ströder wrote:
>>> I'm testing my ansible roles with ansible 2.8rc3.
>>> The roles work with ansible 2.7.10.
>>>
>>> This cron task fails with 2.8rc3 using Python 2.7.16 (see details
>>> attached at message end):
>>>
>>> - name: "Remove obsolete CRON jobs from /etc/cron.d/aedir_tools"
>>> cron:
>>> name: "{{ item }}"
>>> state: absent
>>> cron_file: aedir_tools
>>> with_items:
>>> - aedirpwd_cron
>>> - aedirpwd_expiry_check
>>>
>>> What's wrong with that?

>>> [..]

>>> "msg": "missing parameter(s) required by 'cron_file': user"
>>
>> As the message say you are missing the user parameter, per documentation this is required.
>>
>> That said, the user parameter is irrelevant when state is absent so I would call this a bug.
>
> Here is the culprit PR
> https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/28662

Hmm, should I file a bug?

Ciao, Michael.

[Brian Coca]

yes, please do


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Brian Coca