Hello,
I hope this is the right forum to ask this question:
Is it possible to generate a crontab file from a perl driven CGI script?
If so, what are the key steps?
I've been thinking about how to develop this but for some reason I cannot rectify, in my head, how to edit a crontab file as www when www is not really a user in the /home dir...
Typically you would use the crontab(1) program to submit a new crontab. If you need to get the current crontab first, use crontab -l. Obviously you can't use crontab -e from a script.
So,
# read current crontab my @lines = `crontab -l`;
... change @lines as necessary ...
# submit updated crontab open F, "|crontab" or die $!; print F @lines; close F;
HTH
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