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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Commenting contab from a script Post 302358353 by methyl on Friday 2nd of October 2009 08:25:47 AM
Old 10-02-2009
avishek007 the example you post is looking for a line in crontab containing the word "watchdog" not "asdg_count.sh".

There is a minor typo in cfajohnson's post (missing quote) which has been carried forward into the next two posts. Perhaps that is the problem?

Code:
crontab -l | sed '/asdg_count.sh/ s/^/#/' | crontab -

I would always advise copying crontab to a safe area before editing the file. The rest really depends on local rules.
 

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CRON-APT(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       CRON-APT(8)

NAME
cron-apt -- program to update the system using apt-get SYNOPSIS
cron-apt [configfile] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the cron-apt command. cron-apt is a program that uses the information in /etc/cron-apt/action.d/ as arguments to apt-get line by line in file order. OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files. --help Show summary of options. CONFIGURATION
Configuration can be done by editing /etc/cron-apt/config and by adding rules to /etc/cron-apt/action.d/ The variables that you can set in /etc/cron-apt/config is documented in the configuration example in /usr/share/doc/cron-apt/examples/config From version 0.5.0 the optional FILTERCTRLM attribute is deprecated. SEE ALSO
apt-get (1) aptitude (1) AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Ola Lundqvist ola@inguza.com for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). This manual is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. CRON-APT(8)
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