Using crontab on glast unix machines

We currently have different crontab files installed under account glast on different glastXX nodes, which makes it easy to accidentally overwrite someone else's crontab entries. To make this a little less likely in future I have created a ~glast/crontabs directory with the current crontab files for each node:

[glast03] ~glast/crontabs > ls -l
total 4
-rw-r--r--    1 glast    gl             67 Aug  4 13:46 glast01
-rw-r--r--    1 glast    gl            243 Aug  4 13:47 glast02
-rw-r--r--    1 glast    gl             30 Aug  4 13:48 glast03
-rw-r--r--    1 glast    gl            193 Aug  4 13:49 glast04

I also aliased crontab to give a message pointing users to this page. Use gcrontab to get the real version of crontab.

If you need to add a new crontab item, please edit the file for the relevant node, then install it using gcrontab, e.g.

  gcrontab ~glast/crontabs/glast01

Note: you will have to install crontabs from the machine you want them to run on, ie to update the glast01 crontabs you need to be logged in to glast01.