Akemi Yagi spake the following on 3/12/2007 6:58 PM: > 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 Dropping a script into cron.d is the safer way of scripting a cron job. You are less likely to damage something if a script errs. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos