shhirose.yum-cron

This is Ansible role for yum-cron install and setting for RedHat Enterprise Linux.

Requirements

None

Role Variables

shhirose_yum_cron_daily:
  update_cmd: default
  update_messages: 'yes'
  download_updates: 'yes'
  apply_updates: 'no'
  random_sleep: 360
  system_name: None
  emit_via: stdio
  output_width: 80
  email_from: root@localhost
  email_to: root
  email_host: localhost
  group_list: None
  group_package_types: mandatory, default
  debuglevel: -2
  #skip_broken: 'True'
  mdpolicy: group:main
  #assumeyes: 'True'

shhirose_yum_cron_hourly:
  update_cmd: default
  update_messages: 'no'
  download_updates: 'no'
  apply_updates: 'no'
  random_sleep: 15
  system_name: None
  emit_via: stdio
  output_width: 80
  email_from: root
  email_to: root
  email_host: localhost
  group_list: None
  group_package_types: mandatory, default
  debuglevel: -2
  #skip_broken: 'True'
  mdpolicy: group:main
  #assumeyes: 'True'

shhirose_yum_cron:
  yum_parameter: ''
  check_only: 'no'
  check_first: 'no'
  download_only: 'no'
  error_level: 0
  debug_level: 0
  randomwaite: 60
  email_to: ''
  system_name: ''
  days_of_week: ''
  cleanday: '0'
  service_waits: 'yes'
  service_wait_time: 300

Variable parameters

shhirose_yum_cron_daily

This is variable paramters for RedHat Enterprise Linux 7 or later.

key	required	default	type	values	notes
update_cmd	no	default	string	default, security, security-severity:Critical, minimal, minimal-security, or minimal-security-severity:Critical	What kind of update to use
update_messages	no	yes	string	yes or no	Whether a message should be emitted when updates are available, were downloaded, or applied.
download_updates	no	yes	string	yes or no	Whether updates should be downloaded when they are available.
apply_updates	no	no	string	yes or no	Whether updates should be applied when they are available.
random_sleep	no	360	int		Maximum amout of time to randomly sleep, in minutes.
system_name	no	None	string		Name to use for this system in messages that are emitted.
emit_via	no	stdio	string		How to send messages.
output_width	no	80	int		The width, in characters, that messages that are emitted should be formatted to.
email_from	no	root@localhost	string		The address to send email messages from.
email_to	no	root	string		List of addresses to send messages to.
email_host	no	localhost	string		List of groups to update.
group_list	no	None	string		This only works when group_command != objects, which is now the default List of groups to update
group_package_types	no	mandatory, default	string		The types of group packages to install
debuglevel	no	-2	int	-4, -3, or -2	Use this to filter Yum core messages: -4: critical, -3: critical+errors, -2: critical+errors+warnings (default)
skip_broken	no	comment out	string	True or False
mdpolicy	no	group:main	string
assumeyes	no	comment out	string	True or False	Uncomment to auto-import new gpg keys (dangerous)

shhirose_yum_cron_hourly

This is variable paramters for RedHat Enterprise Linux 7 or later.

key	required	default	type	values	notes
update_cmd	no	default	string	default, security, security-severity:Critical, minimal, minimal-security, or minimal-security-severity:Critical	What kind of update to use
update_messages	no	no	string	yes or no	Whether a message should emitted when updates are available.
download_updates	no	no	string	yes or no	Whether updates should be downloaded when they are available.
apply_updates	no	no	string	yes or no	Whether updates should be applied when they are available.
random_sleep	no	15	int		Maximum amout of time to randomly sleep, in minutes.
system_name	no	None	string		Name to use for this system in messages that are emitted.
emit_via	no	stdio	string		How to send messages.
output_width	no	80	int		The width, in characters, that messages that are emitted should be formatted to.
email_from	no	root	string		The address to send email messages from.
email_to	no	root	string		List of addresses to send messages to.
email_host	no	localhost	string		Name of the host to connect to to send email messages.
group_list	no	None	string		List of groups to update.
group_package_types	no	mandatory, default	string		The types of group packages to install
debuglevel	no	-2	int	-4, -3, or -2	Use this to filter Yum core messages: -4: critical, -3: critical+errors, -2: critical+errors+warnings (default)
skip_broken	no	comment out	string	True or False
mdpolicy	no	group:main	string
assumeyes	no	comment out	string	True or False	Uncomment to auto-import new gpg keys (dangerous)

shhirose_yum_cron

This is variable paramters for RedHat Enterprise Linux 6

key	required	default	type	values	notes
yum_parameter	no	None	string		Pass any given paramter to yum, as run in all the scripts invoked by this package.
check_only	no	no	string	yes or no	Don't install, just check
check_first	no	no	string	yes or no	Check to see if you can reach the repos before updating
download_only	no	no	string	yes or no	Don't install, just check and download
error_level	no	0	int	6	Error level, practical range 0-10, 0 means print only critical errors which you must be told, 1 means print all errors, even ones that are not important
debug_level	no	0	int	6	Debug level, practical range 0-10, higher number means more output Level 1 is a useful level if you want to see what's been done and don't want to read /var/log/yum.log
randomwaite	no	60	string	60	randomwait is used by yum to wait random time
email_to	no	root	string	hoge	List of addresses to send messages to.
system_name	no	hostname	string	'hogehoge'	you may set SYSTEMNAME if you want your yum emails tagged differently
days_of_week	no	'0123456'	string	'016'	you may set DAYS_OF_WEEK to the days of the week you want to run
cleanday	no	'0'	string	'0'	which day should it do cleanup on? defaults to 0 (Sunday).
service_waits	no	'yes'	string	'yes'	set to yes to make the yum-cron service to wait for transactions to complete
service_wait_time	no	300	int	300	set maximum time period (in seconds) for the yum-cron service to wait for transactions to complete.

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  become: yes
  roles:
    - shhirose.yum-cron
  vars:
    shhirose_yum_cron_daily:
      apply_updates: 'yes'

License

MIT