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.