On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 10:35:43AM -0800, Karl R. Balsmeier enlightened us:
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.
Then my first suggestion of making $out_file = /etc/cron.d/somenewfilename would work just fine.
Matt