Adding an interval check, if you don't want to run every time

README.md

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+## Interval Settings
+
+If you have long running audit profiles that you don't wish to execute on every chef-client run,
+you can use the interval recipe instead of the default recipe in your runlist, and set the
+following attributes:
+
+```
+default['audit']['interval']['enabled'] = false
+default['audit']['interval']['time'] = 1440
+```
+
+The time attribute is in minutes.
+
+You can enable the interval and set the interval time, along with your desired profiles,
+ in an environment or role like this:
+
+```json
+
+  "audit": {
+    "profiles": {
+      "base/ssh": true,
+      "base/linux": true
+    },
+    "interval": {
+      "enabled": "true",
+      "time": 1440
+    }
+  }
+
+```
+
 
 Please let us know if you have any [issues](https://github.com/chef-cookbooks/audit/issues), we are happy to help.
 

attributes/interval.rb

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+# encoding: utf-8
+#
+# Author:: Andrew DuFour <adufour@chef.io>
+# Copyright (c) 2016, Chef Software, Inc. <legal@chef.io>
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+# Interval settings. Please see readme. Time is in minutes.
+
+default['audit']['interval']['enabled'] = false
+default['audit']['interval']['time'] = 1440

libraries/interval.rb

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+# encoding: utf-8
+
+def last_run(profile, interval)
+  # Calculate when the profile was last run so we delay it's next run if necessary
+  return false unless ::File.exist?("#{compliance_cache_directory}/#{profile}")
+  compliance_cache_directory = ::File.join(Chef::Config[:file_cache_path], 'compliance')
+  lastrun = Time.now - ::File.mtime("#{compliance_cache_directory}/#{profile}")
+  lastrun < interval
+end

recipes/interval.rb

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+# encoding: utf-8
+#
+# Cookbook Name:: compliance
+# Recipe:: interval
+#
+# Copyright 2016 Chef Software, Inc.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+interval = node['audit']['interval']['time'] * 60
+
+compliance_cache_directory = ::File.join(Chef::Config[:file_cache_path], 'compliance')
+directory compliance_cache_directory
+
+# iterate over all selected profiles
+
+node['audit']['profiles'].each do |owner_profile, enabled|
+  next unless enabled
+  o, p = owner_profile.split('/')
+  # touch a file so we can keep track of when the profile was last executed
+
+  file "#{compliance_cache_directory}/#{p}" do
+    action :nothing
+  end
+  compliance_profile p do
+    owner o
+    action [:fetch, :execute]
+    not_if { last_run(p, interval) && node['audit']['interval']['enabled'] }
+    notifies :touch, "file[#{compliance_cache_directory}/#{p}]", :immediately
+  end
+end
+
+# report the results
+compliance_report 'chef-server' if node['audit']['profiles'].values.any?

spec/unit/recipes/interval_spec.rb

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+# encoding: utf-8
+#
+# Cookbook Name:: audit
+# Spec:: default
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2016 The Authors, All Rights Reserved.
+
+require 'spec_helper'
+
+describe 'audit::interval' do
+  context 'When all attributes are default, on an unspecified platform' do
+    let(:chef_run) do
+      runner = ChefSpec::ServerRunner.new
+      runner.converge(described_recipe)
+    end
+
+    it 'converges successfully' do
+      expect { chef_run }.to_not raise_error
+    end
+  end
+end