Aug 23, 2012

How to add cron job by Chef

Thanks to Chef, I have could save my time. Because I'm responsible for over 70 servers. I installed Middleware, configured user and ssh and OS environment variables by Chef 4 months ago. It just took half a day. Thanks Chef!

As you know, the LOGs became monsters when we have been satisfied. My application dumped out 4.4GB monsters for 4 months. I need to hunt them. So I reused Chef!

Here is my Chef recipe.


Here is my shell hunts monsters.


After run Chef client, you can confirm cron job is activated.


If you want to configure detail level of cron, please look around the following URL.
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Resources#Resources-Cron

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