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