Ansible Role: yum-cron

Installs and configures yum-cron which runs yum updates as a cron job. Supported on EL6 and 7.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

Note: The configuration for yum-cron differs between EL6 and 7. Therefore, a different group of variables are used depending on your distribution version.

EL 7 Options

Enable or disable the yum-cron service:

yum_cron_service_enabled: True

What kind of update to use. Options are:

• default = yum upgrade
• security = yum --security upgrade
• security-severity:Critical = yum --sec-severity=Critical upgrade
• minimal = yum --bugfix update-minimal
• minimal-security = yum --security update-minimal
• minimal-security-severity:Critical = yum --sec-severity=Critical update-minimal

yum_cron_update_cmd: "default"

Whether a message should be emitted when updates are available, were downloaded, or applied:

yum_cron_update_messages: "yes"

Whether updates should be downloaded when they are available:

yum_cron_download_updates: "yes"

Whether updates should be applied when they are available. Note that download_updates must also be yes for the update to be applied:

yum_cron_apply_updates: "yes"

Maximum amout of time to randomly sleep, in minutes:

yum_cron_random_sleep: 360

Name to use for this system in messages that are emitted. If system_name is None, the hostname will be used:

yum_cron_system_name: "None"

How to send messages. Valid options are stdio and email. If emit_via includes stdio, messages will be sent to stdout; this is useful to have cron send the messages. If emit_via includes email, this program will send email itself according to the configured options. If emit_via is None or left blank, no messages will be sent.

yum_cron_emit_via: "stdio"

The width, in characters, that messages that are emitted should be formatted to:

yum_cron_output_width: 80

The address to send email messages from. NOTE: 'localhost' will be replaced with the value of system_name.

yum_cron_email_from: "root@localhost"

List of addresses to send messages to:

yum_cron_email_to: "root"

Name of the host to connect to to send email messages:

yum_cron_email_host: "localhost"

Use this to filter Yum core messages:

• -4: critical
• -3: critical+errors
• -2: critical+errors+warnings (default)

yum_cron_debuglevel: "-2"

EL6 Options

Pass parameters to yum:

yum_cron_yum_parameter: ""

Don't install, just check:

yum_cron_check_only: "no"

Check to see if you can reach the repos before updating:

yum_cron_check_first: "no"

Don't install, just check and download:

yum_cron_download_only: "no"

Print error ranging from level 0 thru 10. 0 means print only critical errors:

yum_cron_error_level: "0"

Set the debug level from 0 thru 10, higher number means more output:

yum_cron_debug_level: "0"

Tell yum to wait a random time:

yum_cron_randomwait: "60"

Mail the output to this email address:

yum_cron_mailto: ""

Tag the yum emails when sent:

yum_cron_systemname: "{{ ansible_fqdn }}"

Days of the week you want to run yum-cron:

yum_cron_days_of_week: "0123456"

Do clean up on this day. Defaults to 0 (Sunday):

yum_cron_cleanday: "0"

Make yum-cron service wait for transactions to complete:

yum_cron_service_waits: "yes"

Set the time period, in seconds. for the yum-cron service to wait for transactions to complete:

yum_cron_service_wait_time: "300"

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - giovtorres.yum-cron

License

BSD.