Josip Deanovic wrote:
>> > On a related note, has anyone any nice ideas about appending crontab
> > entries to a user crontab file? I mean, how to do it unattended. Perhaps
> > some manipulation of the EDITOR variable perhaps? Creating a new crontab
> > is easy, appending is the problem which led me to use /etc/crontab in
> > the first place..
>> Why would you want to do that?
automatic update of almost a dozen machines..
on that note, what have other people used for management of lots of
similar machines on a network? I've built up a set of shell script that
use text tools, nfs, rsync, ssh, cvs.. with plenty of error checking it
works very well, but I've rarely seen any documents on this subject.
D.
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