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# 1  
Old 07-13-2009
Execute a shell script after a particular command is run
Hi,

I need to run a script whenever the Cron file is modified.
The requirement is whenever a user modifies the cron file, the script should run automatically.
Can you please provide your inputs ?
# 2  
Old 07-13-2009
If you stored the sum value of the output from crontab -l somewhere then you could run a conjob to compare the actual sum value from crontab -l with the stored one and run something if they were different.

Manual setup:
Code:
# crontab -l | sum > /root/crontab-l.sum

Script to run from root cron:
Code:
LIVECRONSUM=`crontab -l | sum`
STOREDCRONSUM=`cat /root/crontab-l.sum`
if [ ${LIVECRONSUM} -ne ${STOREDCRONSUM} ]; then
  #run something
  logger -p daemon.notice "The root user crontab has changed!"
  # updated stored value so that the above only runs once
  crontab -l | sum > /root/crontab-l.sum
fi

# 3  
Old 07-21-2009
Thanks a lot.
What i want is that whenever user modifies the cron file, the script should run automatically and no manual intervention is needed to run the script.
The script will then find the differences between the old and new cron file.
# 4  
Old 07-21-2009
isn't the above logic what you're looking for?
# 5  
Old 07-27-2009
Will the above process automaticall invoke the process if someone modifies the cron ?
I want the script to be executed automatically and not to be run by the user.
# 6  
Old 08-03-2009
The intention is to run it from cron, so that means it will run as frequently as you want it to but will only alert you if and when a change is seen.
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