Re: cat cron jobs into crontab

[Akemi Yagi <amyagi@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:58:46 -0400, Matt Hyclak wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 05:21:47PM -0800, Karl R. Balsmeier enlightened
> us:
>> What's the best/safest way to "cat" the following job into crontab?
>> 
>> */3 * * * *  /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_megaraid_passive.sh >
>> /dev/null 2>&1
>> 
>> I am used to doing this manually via crontab -e, but now I simply have
>> too many centos servers to build in a given week (get to toss another
>> 120K at some more 2U chenbro/tyan/amd64's -w000ooo).
>> 
>> 
> echo '*/3 * * * *  /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_megaraid_passive.sh >
> /dev/null 2>&1' > /etc/cron.d/check_megaraid_passive.sh
> 
> (Watch for wrapping, of course).
> 
> Matt

Isn't this supposed to be written to /etc/crontab (if root) or
to /var/spool/cron/username (if a user) ?  Or maybe I am mistaken?

Akemi


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