What is this about ? ******************** You may backup your home directory, but do you back up your cron jobs ? I thought not. Have you ever changed your crontab and regretted it ? Run this script every day (from cron, what else ?) and it will keep a copy of your cron file and a history of how it changes. Installation ************ Copy CrontabHistory to /usr/local/bin and make it executable. If you don't have permission to write to /usr/local/bin then create a 'bin' directory in your $HOME and put it there. Run the command: crontab -e and add a new entry like: 2 0 * * * /usr/local/bin/CrontabHistory -q Options ******* -d dir Put output into the directory 'dir'. The default is $HOME/CronHistory -q Quiet. Only generate output if there is a problem. -x Explain - print a help message. License ******* This software is copyright (c) Alain Williams , 2006, 2007. This software is released under the GPLv3, see: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html Keeping up to date ****************** You may find newer versions of this software at: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/downloads.php Where you will also find references to email lists that relate to this software. Contributing ************ CrontabHistory is free software (see the license). Free software grows and becomes more powerful and useful as those who gain by using it contribute their changes back to the original author. Contributions to this software are welcome. Please email the author the following: * your name & email address * your affiliation (company/institute/...) if any * the code * documentation * a statement that you are legally able to release the code and documentation * a statement transfering copyright to the Author below giving permission that it may be redistributed as part of UserAdmin under an appropriate license Contributions will be acknowledged in the Contributors file that accompanies this software. If you do not want to be acknowledged please make that clear. The author will be pleased to receive your comments, good or bad. SCCS: @(#)README 1.2 08/21/08 12:30:20