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

[stillwaxin at gmail.com (Michael Still)]

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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