On 12Apr2009 20:23, Antonio Olivares <[email protected]> wrote: | I want to know if it is possible to edit/append to crontab without | using crontab -e. I have about 10 machines running Fedora and at the end | of the day I have to manually power them off (shutdown). For a while, | I started thinking about it, well I can make a crontab to shutdown the | machines at a certain time:
Something like: #!/bin/sh set -ue tmp=/tmp/crontab$$ crontab -l >"$tmp" echo "15 16 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/poweroff >/dev/null 2>&1' >>"$tmp" crontab "$tmp" rm "$tmp" maybe? Untested, but you get the idea I'm sure. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ I distrust a research person who is always obviously busy on a task. - Robert Frosch, VP, GM Research -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
