programming crontab

[ksmatthews]

Hi There,

 

Does anyone have any ideas about editing crontab programmatically using PHP.

 

When a crontab file is created by a user, where does it actually live ?? Which directory ?

 

The crontab manual recommends NOT trying to edit the crontab file manually but by using

crontab  -e.

 

Regards,

 

Steven M

[trq]

The following would add....

 

* * * * * /usr/bin/echo foo

 

to the thorpe users current crontab.

 

echo -e "$(crontab -l)\n* * * * * /usr/bin/echo foo" | crontab -u thorpe -