Shell Programming and Scripting

It worked!!!

Thank you very much bartus

Hello again,

As I learned how to check for a specific string in cron, I'm going deeper with my "pseudo script" to add some error handling to it.

I wanna know, if by any means, if I can make a verification that the crontab has changed in, for example, 10 hours.

What I'm trying to accomplish here is something like this:

Load the shell script from .profile

Then do something like this:

If crontab has changed in the last "10" hours
do (run the check bartus sent)
else
do nothing.

What came to my attention, is that sometimes there are purposely commented jobs, If I only add the verification from before to my .profile it will always came up with the message that something is commented out.

If I could manage to check for the cron file date (of modification) and do some kind of comparison, that would help filtering old commented jobs.

Thanks a lot.