Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!unido!cosmo!jum
From: jum@cosmo.UUCP (Uwe Mager)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Cron
Message-ID: <736@cosmo.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 88 05:44:30 GMT
References: <235014@<1988Jan17> <10800014@bradley> <712@uel.uel.co.uk>
Reply-To: jum@cosmo.UUCP (Jens-Uwe Mager)
Organization: CosmoNet Kommunikationssysteme GmbH, D-300 Hannover, West Germany
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Summary: Makefile for crontab directory

I have found it convenient to keep all crontabs in a directory (say
/usr/adm/crontabs) and have make worry about updates:
------------------/usr/adm/crontabs/Makefile------------------------
DEST=/usr/spool/cron/crontabs
CTABS=$(DEST)/adm $(DEST)/comm $(DEST)/news $(DEST)/root \
	$(DEST)/sys $(DEST)/uucp

.IGNORE:
.PRECIOUS:	$(CTABS)

all:	$(CTABS)

$(CTABS): $$(@F)
	/bin/su $? -c crontab <$?
--------------------------------------------------------------------
The .IGNORE is needed for the funny return codes delivered by
crontab (at least on our machines).
-- 
Jens-Uwe Mager
jum@focus.UUCP || jum@cosmo.UUCP