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

[Jim]

Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 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
>   
Nope, this is something that has to run from rpm -i and have some 
intelligence so it doesn't duplicate the entry in case this is an update 
and not an install.  I can work with cron.d 

Thanks,
Jim.