Name

cronsw - Switch crontab files

Syntax

cronsw tag

Description

Cronsw, a shell script, allows the system administrator to switch crontab files. The tag argument specifies the suffix of a “cron” file to switch to. For example, if the tag is “day”, the $/etc/cron.day file is copied to $/etc/crontab file, and becomes the current task schedule.

Files

$/etc/cron.tag

files accepted as input by cronsw,

$/etc/crontab

output file of cronsw, used by system to schedule tasks.

See Also

cron(ADM), scripts(M)

Author

Dean Fick (dean@pro-electric)