martin f krafft said on Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 02:43:02PM +0100: > I am trying to set up persistent crontabs in a FAI cluster by using > NFS to export /var/spool/cron/crontabs to the clients, thus > effectively storing the crontabs on the server. I further would like > to use root_squash. Do you really want your user's crontabs to run on every host in your cluster? > The question now is: how do I make this work? I do not want to set > no_root_squash because laptops could be used to mount the crontabs > export and modify away, subverting the user accounts. What about a script that looks in each users homedir for .crontab, and runs crontab -u $USER ~$USER/.crontab every, say hour or so? Put that script in your client /etc/cron.hourly, and push it. M
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