From 25d10962e91d178893d773ec2c7e6aaf5415227f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 00:52:49 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add joeyh's loadcron

---
 loadcron | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 loadcron

diff --git a/loadcron b/loadcron
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..5700cc1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/loadcron
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Construct a crontab based on files in ~/.cron and load it into cron.
+# The file ~/.cron/username/fqdn is appended to the common file in the same
+# directory. Note that the common file may have "$HOME" in it, as in 
+# "PATH=$HOME/bin". cron is too dumb to deal with that, so the expansion is
+# handled by this script.
+set -e
+
+WARNING="# Automatically generated by loadcron; edit ~/.cron/ files instead."
+
+if [ ! -z "`crontab -l`" ] && ! crontab -l | grep -q "$WARNING"; then
+	if [ "$1" != "-f" ]; then
+		echo "loadcron: Current crontab was not generated by loadcron; not changing." >&2
+		echo "loadcron: Use loadcron -f to override"
+		exit
+	else
+		crontab -l > $HOME/tmp/oldcrontab
+		echo "loadcron: Old crontab is backed up to $HOME/tmp/oldcrontab"
+	fi
+fi
+
+dir=$HOME/.cron/`whoami`
+if [ -d "$dir" ]; then
+	(
+		echo "$WARNING"
+		echo
+		if [ -e "$dir/common" ]; then
+			echo "# From $dir/common:"
+			sed "s!\$HOME!$HOME!" < "$dir/common"
+			echo
+		fi
+		hostfile="$dir/`hostname -f`"
+		if [ -e "$hostfile" ]; then
+			echo "# From $hostfile:"
+			cat "$hostfile"
+			echo
+		fi
+		# debian-edu crontab
+		debianedufile=/org/alioth.debian.org/chroot/home/groups/debian-edu/cronjobs/crontab.alioth
+		if [ "$(hostname)" = "haydn" ] && [ -e "$debianedufile" ]; then
+			echo "# From $debianedufile:"
+			cat "$debianedufile"
+			echo
+		fi
+	) | crontab -
+fi
-- 
2.39.2