at – Schedule the execution of a command or script file via the at command

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Ansible/docs/2.7/modules/at module


at – Schedule the execution of a command or script file via the at command

New in version 1.5.


Synopsis

  • Use this module to schedule a command or script file to run once in the future.
  • All jobs are executed in the ‘a’ queue.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • at

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments

command

-

A command to be executed in the future.

count

- / required

The count of units in the future to execute the command or script file.

script_file

-

An existing script file to be executed in the future.

state

-

  • absent
  • present

The state dictates if the command or script file should be evaluated as present(added) or absent(deleted).

unique

boolean

  • no

  • yes

If a matching job is present a new job will not be added.

units

- / required

  • minutes
  • hours
  • days
  • weeks

The type of units in the future to execute the command or script file.



Examples

- name: Schedule a command to execute in 20 minutes as root.
  at:
    command: ls -d / >/dev/null
    count: 20
    units: minutes

- name: Match a command to an existing job and delete the job.
  at:
    command: ls -d / >/dev/null
    state: absent

- name: Schedule a command to execute in 20 minutes making sure it is unique in the queue.
  at:
    command: ls -d / >/dev/null
    count: 20
    units: minutes
    unique: yes

Status

Red Hat Support

More information about Red Hat’s support of this module is available from this Red Hat Knowledge Base article.

Authors

  • Richard Isaacson (@risaacson)

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