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

[jimpop at yahoo.com (Jim Popovitch)]

On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 09:44 -0500, Jim 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?

  echo "* * * * * /usr/sbin/reboot" > /tmp/crontab.$$
  crontab /tmp/crontab.$$

-Jim P.


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