Re: crontabs + m4 = ?
On 14-Jan-1998 00:30:49, Topi Miettinen <Topi.Miettinen@ml.tele.fi> wrote:
> How about modifying cron to read its files using a preprocessor, like m4?
> That would be a more flexible solution than fixed "include *" or
> "cat *>crontab" and it wouldn't be much harder to do.
It's a neat idea, but completely incompatible with other crons. Nothing
prevents a sysadmin from using a crontab.m4 to generate /etc/crontab.
I also have a hard time imagining any real use for it that wouldn't be
better done in program that cron executes rather than cron itself. Of
course, my imagination may be faulty.
steve
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