=====Patching script===== The process we use is to modify the crontab and then we run the usual patching script **patch-crontab.yml** You use this playbook by simply ansible-playbook patch-crontab.yml --- - name: change cronjob hosts: all tasks: - name: carry out change lineinfile: path: /etc/crontab regexp: 'yum_update_RHEL.sh' line: '00 23 26 apr * root /scripts/yum_update/yum_update_RHEL.sh' Remember to change the date to the appropriate one You can check the settings with ansible all -a "grep RHEL /etc/crontab" you can also check the results of the patching with ansible all -a "sudo yum history" >> result1.txt THis generates a files called result1.txt that has the full saet of yum historys