Packaging question (editing crontab)

[hume.sp...@bofh.ca]

I'm building a package on Solaris 10 to install some shell-script utilities
(monitoring stuff) on some servers. Some of these utilities are fired out
of cron; I'd like the package to modify the monitoring user's crontab as
needed.

I've got this in my prototype:

i i.cron
i r.cron
e cron var/spool/cron/crontabs/nagios 0600 root sys

And both [ir].cron will add and remove (safely) the needed cron entries. It
works fine... IF the nagios crontab already exists. Even empty is okay.
But if the user HAS no crontab, I get the following on package install:

[ verifying class <cron> ]
ERROR: attribute verification of </var/spool/cron/crontabs/nagios> failed
pathname does not exist

Now, I can check for the file in checkinstall and install an empty cron
if needed, but I'm assuming there's a more elegant means of accomplishing
this.

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[jay]

hmmm. it's been a while since i last did that. so i'm not sure i
ever encountered
the exact same thing. i know i ran into something similar, and my fix
was to include
an empty crontab entry in the package.

j.