[GTALUG] Crontab versioning

Jason Shaw grazer at gmail.com
Thu May 3 14:32:26 EDT 2018


I'd recommend using git or a similar version control system, and then have
some sort of configuration management tool like ansible put it in place on
the server.

-jason

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Alex Beamish via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> I'm developing scripts that get run by crontab, so I'm in there making
> updates fairly regularly. I would love to be able to document the changes,
> so I'm wondering if there a usual and customary technique to version
> crontabs?
>
> Ideally there would be some sort of hook around 'crontab -e', but failing
> that, I'd have the output of 'crontab -l' (run regularly by cron?) go to a
> versioned file. Plan B sounds a bit hokey to me.
>
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