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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 19:22:09 +0200
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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Subject: automatic cronjaob injectsion
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I know that it might be possible and I know that is not advisable,
but may a cygwin postinstall script or just another helper script
install a cronjob automatically?

echo "$cronline" >> /var/cron/tabs/$USER
kill -HUP `cat /var/run/cron.pid`
crontab -e

Then change a bit in the job file, and save. voila.

A technical issue might be that cron will not react on -HUP. Does it?
I only look at the cron sources at linux some years ago.

I have for example this init.d snippet:

installcron() {
     echo "put this into your cronjob:"
     echo
     echo "*  */3 * * * /usr/bin/freshclam 2>&1 >/dev/null"
     echo "#*  */3 * * * /usr/bin/freshclam 2>&1 >/dev/null" >> 
/var/cron/tabs/$USER
     kill -HUP `cat /var/run/cron.pid`
     crontab -e
}


-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/


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