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Old 04-09-2008, 10:41 PM
Sharif Rizal
 
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Default Re: Adding line in crontab from command line...

On Apr 9, 4:58*pm, Sharif Rizal <sharif.ri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 9, 2:17*pm, contrace...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Hi:

>
> > Can you tell me if is there any way to make this task ?

>
> > 00 1 * * * /monitor_file_system *2>/dev/null *> crontab

>
> > Thank You !

>
> If you are trying to do this manually and know vi,
>
> export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi
> crontab -e
>
> then add your entry then save / quit
>
> If you are trying to do this from a script,
> 1. dump the content of the existing crontab to a file
> * # crontab > /tmp/dump
> 2. echo "your lines" >> to the corntab file
> * # echo " 00 1 * * * /monitor_file_system *2>/dev/null" >> /tmp/dump
> 3. import the new crontab
> * # crontab /tmp/dump


correction:
1. dump the content of the existing crontab to a file
# crontab -l > /tmp/dump
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