[ale] Need ideas on how to maintian /etc/crontab

[Christopher Fowler]

On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 13:35 -0500, Jim wrote:
> Interesting, I've been working with Unix systems for over 20 years and I 
> never knew about cron.d.  I've had a working Linux system since 1992.  
> Kernel version 0.12.  
> 

crontab -e

> So an old dog can learn new tricks.
> 
> Thanks!
> Jim
> 
> Michael Still wrote:
> > use /etc/cron.d/
> >
> > On 2/1/07, Jim <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> I have a number of programs that run from /etc/crontab. These don't lend
> >> themselves to being run from an y of the cron.daily/cron.weekly, etc.
> >> Not all systems have all of the programs so I'm looking for a way to
> >> automate the insertion/deletion of the entries.  I know I can write a
> >> perl script to do it, but I was hoping there was something already
> >> written to do it.  The insert/delete will be driven by rpm -i or rpm -e,
> >> so it's gotta be a script or something callable from the %post rpm
> >> script set.
> >>
> >> Anyone know of a canned solution?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Jim.
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