[CentOS] cat cron jobs into crontab
Florin Andrei
florin at andrei.myip.org
Tue Mar 13 18:25:02 UTC 2007
Karl R. Balsmeier wrote:
>
> 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).
crontab (and the files in /var/spool/cron) are for manual updates to the
scheduled jobs.
For automated updates, the "official" way is /etc/cron.d
So, if you want to automate the creation/removal of cron jobs, just
create/remove files in /etc/cron.d
crontab and the associated files are NOT the appropriate tool for that
purpose.
Just create a file called /etc/cron.d/nagios-megaraid containing the
line you specified.
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Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/
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