is this crontab config possible?...

[K.C. Chan]

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.

[Chan 007]

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

[Ivan Ferreira]

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/

[Stuart Browne]

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).