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Crontab linter
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chkcrontab is a script to check crontab files like those in
``/etc/cron.d`` and ``/etc/crontab``. It tries to catch glaring
errors and warn on suspect lines in a crontab file. Some valid
lines will generate warnings. Certain silly yet valid crontab lines
will generate errors as well.
Run this by doing::
chkcrontab crontab_file
Errors will cause a non-zero exit code. Warnings alone will not.
To see sample output for a bad crontab, run the following::
./chkcrontab ./tests/test_crontab
See the ``./tests/test_crontab.disable`` crontab for how to disable
warnings and errors.
Contributions
=============
Contributions are welcome! Please add unit tests for new features
or bug fixes. To run all the unit tests run ``./setup test``.
Unit tests are run on `Travis`_ for all supported python versions.
The main site for this is on code.google.com with a backup site at
github. Use whichever is convenient, the maintainer will push
accepted patches to both.
* http://code.google.com/p/chkcrontab/
* http://github.com/lyda/chkcrontab/
.. _`Travis`: http://travis-ci.org/