how to add stuff to crontab without using crontab -e

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear fellow Fedora users,
> 
> I want to know if it is possible to edit/append to crontab
> without
using crontab -e. I have about 10 machines running Fedora and at the
end of the day I have to manually power them off (shutdown). For a
while, I started thinking about it, well I can make a crontab to
shutdown the machines at a certain time:
> 
> Edit crontab to shutdown machines from student account at 4:15
every day(Monday-Friday) at school :) This way I don't have to shut
them down myself :)
> 
You may want to try a different approach. I would think it would be
much easier to just add a shutdown file to /etc/cron.d The format is
 slightly different - you have to specify the name of the user to
run as. You could create a file called poweroff containing:

# Power off the system weekdays at 4:15 pm.
#
15 16 * * 1-5 root /sbin/shutdown -h now

Mikkel
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