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Thanks for that explanation! pull vs push mode makes sense. Yes, none of the modules I've seen can efficiently work with configuration stored in a single file

Thanks for that explanation! pull vs push mode makes sense. Yes, none of the modules I've seen can efficiently work with configuration stored in a single file like crontabs. For example, the salt module needs to read and write the entire crontab for each state configuration. The only problem I have against building a crontab from a template before placing them with the software is that it makes it difficult to keep things modular since all the cron jobs need to be defined in a single place (even if they are for totally different things).

dozzie 10y ago
Uhm... Why do you want to put all the entries in a single file? Use templates of multiple files and put multiple files to /etc/cron.d.
- swalladge 10y ago
  Hmm yeah that sounds like it could work better. Are there any disadvantages of using /etc/cron.d over crontab though? It seems that doing it that way would require root access on the client/minion, but I guess running as root is the most common anyway.