Re: cron jobs more often than daily

[Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>]

Remco Blaakmeer <remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl> wrote:
> The update-cron script could be very simple, like:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> cat <<EOF > /etc/crontab.tmp
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE. It will be overwritten by the update-cron script.
> # Instead, edit the appropriate file in /etc/cron.d and re-run update-cron .
> #
> EOF
> cat /etc/cron.d/* >> /etc/crontab.tmp
> mv /etc/crontab.tmp /etc/crontab

Brilliant.  I think that sorts that problem out rather nicely.

BTW you could make the script even simpler (well shorter anyway ;-), and 
slighlty safer:

#!/bin/sh
cat - /etc/cron.d/* <<EOF > /etc/crontab.tmp && mv /etc/crontab.tmp 
/etc/crontab
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE. It will be overwritten by the update-cron script.
# Instead, edit the appropriate file in /etc/cron.d and re-run update-cron .
#
EOF

Cheers, Phil.



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