Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: inserting lines into crontab Author: davidlee Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23442,23442#msg-23442
(cfengine 3.1.4) Imagine a set of related but different machines being maintained by cfengine. Each has its own root crontab with contents that may be somewhat different, for legitimate reasons. This request is NOT about those differences, but the differences act as a possible constraint on the real question. We would like to be able to maintain a some sort of common repository of additional crontab entries, ideally a mini-crontab file itself, that could be installed and maintained by cfengine into each of those machines. How can we do that? I suspect I need to be in the vicinity of ref. manual "7.7.2 insert_type" with that type being "file". But the description is poor, and the example woefully incomplete (I've filed bug 793 about this). Could I use a template-like file, say, "crontab.local-entries"? Something like: ========== # crontab-local-start * * * * * first common command * * * * * second common command # crontab-local-end ========== I've included the possibility of commented delimiters, as a pair of section markers, if this would help. Can cfengine now insert that (and maintain future changes to it) into the various, possibly different, crontab files on the various machines? If so, could someone give a clue as to what the cfengine code would look like, please? _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
