- 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