--- On Sun, 4/12/09, Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: how to add stuff to crontab without using crontab -e > To: olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx, "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sunday, April 12, 2009, 8:35 PM > On 12Apr2009 20:23, Antonio Olivares > <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> 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$$ > crontab -l >"$tmp" > echo "15 16 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/poweroff >/dev/null > 2>&1' >>"$tmp" > crontab "$tmp" > rm "$tmp" > > maybe? Untested, but you get the idea I'm sure. > > Cheers, > -- > Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 > http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ > > I distrust a research person who is always obviously busy > on a task. > - Robert Frosch, VP, GM Research Thank you very much Cameron and Jorge for responding. I have done this, but I encounter the following error: [olivares@localhost Documents]$ cat edit-crontab #!/bin/sh set -ue tmp=/tmp/crontab$$ crontab -l >"$tmp" echo "15 16 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/poweroff >/dev/null 2>&1' >>"$tmp" crontab "$tmp" rm "$tmp" [olivares@localhost Documents]$ ./edit-crontab ./edit-crontab: line 7: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"' I have encountered a few errors like this one when creating other scripts, and I have used the "`" character to help me, I will try to use it and see if it helps me get past this error? Thanks a million. Regards, Antonio -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
