Magic Cron System
Magic Cron System
The Magic Cron System was created by Brandon D. Valentine. Â The cron.magic system allows you to add cron jobs to all the systems in the structbio NIS domain without having to login to each system. The system is located in /sb/admin/cron and all of its configuration and log files reside there. This system allows you to create both hourly and daily cron jobs on a system-wide basis as well as an operating system specific basis.
The following files control cron.magic’s behavior:
cron.magic – this is the actual script which launches the other cronjobs, the only user-configurable parameter in this file is $dailytime which defines the time each day the daily cronjobs are run
hourly.all – hourly system-wide cronjobs
hourly.OS_NAME – i.e. IRIX or Linux, hourly OS specific cronjobs
daily.all – daily system-wide cronjobs
daily.OS_NAME – daily OS specific cronjobs