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+- name: modify crontab
+  hosts: apache-intranet
+  become: true
+
+  tasks:
+
+  - name: create crontab cleanup entry
+    lineinfile:
+      path: /etc/crontab
+      line: '30 4 * * *      root    /usr/bin/rm /var/www/files/* 2>/dev/null'
+      state: present
+
+
+  - name: create crontab entry to run sysctl reload at boot
+    lineinfile:
+      path: /etc/crontab
+      line: '@reboot         root    /usr/sbin/sysctl -p'
+      state: present
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