Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: inserting lines into crontab Author: davidlee Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23442,23447#msg-23447
Neil: Thanks for the reply, about defining a list in cfengine and appending that. There are two drawbacks for us, one technical, the other political: Technically: while that handles adding the lines in the first place, it doesn't address maintaining those same lines into the future (changing details, deleting old entries) unless one writes even more cfengine scripting. (Or have I missed something?) Politically: my team (to which I am still relatively new) is new to cfengine and are worried about the relative difficulty and obscurity of it compared to "well we simply used to copy files and it worked; why do we need this cfengine stuff". And although I personally like cfengine, I confess to sympathising with them, even agreeing with them. We're after a clear, simply stated promise of "please maintain the contents of a common source crontab-like file X into the target crontab file Y". (Note also the "clear, simply stated" there.) Mike: re your "/etc/cron.d" suggestion: that looks very interesting. (Smack my own forehead "why didn't I think of that"!) A promise that is clear and simple to express. Thanks. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
