Karl R. Balsmeier wrote:
thanks, I'm running a script after kickstart install, and am looking to
"cat" a known value into an empty cron file. Managing it or otherwise
having to manually edit it is not the issue i'm seeking info on.
I'm trying to avoid having to manually add all of my known cron jobs
with crontab -e
To do this, I was trying out some stuff like:
*cat >> $out_file << EOF
first line of data
second line of data
more data
the end of the data
EOF*
but in a way that was safe for cron, with no modifications to the
default manner in which cron runs, e.g. crontab -l, crontab -e later
would not break seeking some new file.
There are special cases for system entries where these can go in files
with one or more entries under /etc/cron.d, or cron.daily (etc).
However, these won't ever show up in anyone's 'cron -l' or 'cron -e'
commands and thus aren't suitable for things that users will manage
themselves after the install.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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