[PR #10461/cc13f42b backport][stable-10] Fix cronvar crash when parent dir of cron_file is missing (#10473)

Fix cronvar crash when parent dir of cron_file is missing (#10461)

* Fix cronvar crash on non existent directories

* Update changelog

* Fix small variable bug

* Fix trailing witespace

* Fix CI issues

* Update changelogs/fragments/10461-cronvar-non-existent-dir-crash-fix.yml



* Update plugins/modules/cronvar.py



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(cherry picked from commit cc13f42be4)

Co-authored-by: Giorgos Drosos <56369797+gdrosos@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>

tests/integration/targets/cronvar/tasks/main.yml

@@ -122,3 +122,19 @@
       - custom_varcheck1.stdout == '1'
       - custom_varcheck2.stdout == '1'
       - custom_varcheck3.stdout == '0'
+
+- name: Attempt to add cron variable to non-existent parent directory
+  cronvar:
+    name: NOPARENT_VAR
+    value: noparentval
+    cron_file: /nonexistent/foo
+    user: root
+  register: invalid_directory_cronvar_result
+  ignore_errors: true
+
+- name: Assert that the cronvar task failed due to invalid directory
+  ansible.builtin.assert:
+    that:
+      - invalid_directory_cronvar_result is failed
+      - >-
+       "Parent directory '/nonexistent' does not exist for cron_file: '/nonexistent/foo'" == invalid_directory_cronvar_result.msg