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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting temporarily suspend crontab Post 302344822 by avronius on Monday 17th of August 2009 05:26:15 PM
Old 08-17-2009
Well, here's a quick and dirty "enable/disable" script
Code:
#!/usr/bin/bash

function usage ()
{
   echo "Usage:"
   echo "      $0 [-enable|-disable|-help] [<process>]"
}

if [ $# -lt 2 ] ; then
   echo "process must be specified"
   usage
   exit 1
fi

case $1 in
   -enable|--enable|-e|--e)
      rm "/var/tmp/croncontrol/$2"
      exit 0
   ;;
   -disable|--disable|-d|--d)
      touch "/var/tmp/croncontrol/$2"
      exit 0
   ;;
   -help|--help|-h|--h)
      usage
      exit 0
   ;;
   -*|--*)
      echo "Error: no such option $1"
      usage
      exit 1
   ;;
   *)
      usage
      exit 1
   ;;
esac
exit 0

In this case, you'd use peterro's cron commands with the /var/tmp/crontab patch:
Code:
0 3 * * * [ ! -f /var/tmp/croncontrol/backup ] && /path/to/backup/script

If you call your script "manageCron" and store it in /usr/local/bin, you would run the command like this to disable the backup scripts:
Code:
/usr/local/bin/manageCron -d backup



---------- Post updated at 03:15 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:13 PM ----------

I've added the full name as well as the --option format - choose whichever works best for you in your environment.

All of the following will produce the same result:
Code:
/usr/local/bin/manageCron -d backup

Code:
/usr/local/bin/manageCron -disable backup

Code:
/usr/local/bin/manageCron --d backup

Code:
/usr/local/bin/manageCron --disable backup



---------- Post updated at 03:26 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:15 PM ----------

If you prefer to be posix compliant (most of us want this!) make the following change to the first 3 lines:
Code:
#!/bin/sh

usage()


Last edited by avronius; 08-17-2009 at 06:16 PM.. Reason: Adding comments
 

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