The cron resource type

A cron job mainly consists of a command and the recurring time and date at which to run the command. Puppet models the command and each date particle as a property of a resource with the cron type:

cron { 'clean-files':
  ensure      => present,
  user        => 'root',
  command     => '/usr/local/bin/clean-files',
  minute      => '1',
  hour        => '3',
  weekday     => [ '2', '6' ],
  environment => 'MAILTO=felix@example.net',
}

The environment property allows you to specify one or more variable bindings for cron to add to the job.