topic Re: is this crontab config possible?... in Operating System - Linux

is this crontab config possible?...

K.C. Chan — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:58:47 GMT

I have cron entries for various which runs under one account. I was thinking of braking this entries into modular component, each app has its own cron file. On the main crontab file, it reference this individual cronfile. Is this possible? Thanks.

Re: is this crontab config possible?...

Chan 007 — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:13:52 GMT

Chan,

You can run all cron jobs from root. All you have to do is, just a wrapper script,

which does

su - username and then kicks it off.

Else, as told you can have for each user wise,

Chan

Re: is this crontab config possible?...

Ivan Ferreira — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:20:30 GMT

If you want to do some modular configuration, you can take the example of the /etc/crontab file, which uses run-parts to run scripts located in a specific directory.

Just change the line to run the scripts in the directories as the user you want, at the time you want, for example:

0 0 * * * username run-parts /etc/cron.d/username.d/

Re: is this crontab config possible?...

Stuart Browne — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 03:04:53 GMT

The other thing you can do on modern Linux distributions (you're using RHEL from memory, so that's fine) is to use the '/etc/cron.d/' structure, and pop individual crontabs in there for your different appliations.

These appear similr to the '/etc/crontab' file (i.e. they have the user-to-run-as listed as the 6th argument).