scripting crontab entries
Peter Risdon
peter at circlesquared.com
Wed Feb 16 09:40:56 GMT 2005
I want to be able to update a user's crontab from a script. tabs
in /var/cron/tabs carry a warning that the file should not be edited
directly, so presumably something like
#echo "5 * * * * /some/script.sh" >> /var/cron/tabs/$USER
is the wrong approach. Is the right approach:
#cat ~/.mycrontab
5 * * * * /some/script.sh
#crontab ~/.mycrontab
The right way to go? I notice this approach blows away existing crontab
entries, and was hoping to be able to append new ones instead, but then
by treating ~/.mycrontab as the master file, I can manage this OK.
TIA.
Peter.
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