On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Forrest Aldrich <for...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Running crontab -e is not applicable to what I'm doing here. I experimented > with it and it turns out you can't use that functionality in a scripted > environment, it doesn't work. I have a script that edits a line of a > crontab, either commented out or not. Then it needs to tell cron to re-read > the tabs. How about: tmpfile=`mktemp` crontab -l > $tmpfile ... # munge the file here or in a pipeline with the previous command crontab $tmpfile rm -f $tmpfile Before I knew about that approach, I also did things like setting EDITOR (be sure VISUAL is unset) to the name of a script that knows how to munge it. That is, something like the following: env -i PATH=$PATH EDITOR=/my/script crontab -e And if you already edited it in place (I advise against it...) env -i PATH=$PATH EDITOR=touch crontab -e -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
