make cron module work on solaris

Cron on solaris do not take the same
set of option than vixie cron on linux, and
among the biggest difference, root cannot set
the crontab of a user directly from a file. Thus the
use of su to run the crontab command. Fix issue #4648
This commit is contained in:
Michael Scherer 2013-10-31 18:23:04 +01:00
parent 5547cc9c29
commit 2a3ee8dbf4

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@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ EXAMPLES = '''
import os
import re
import tempfile
import platform
CRONCMD = "/usr/bin/crontab"
@ -345,21 +346,27 @@ class CronTab(object):
"""
Returns the command line for reading a crontab
"""
return "%s -l %s" % (CRONCMD, self._user_execute())
user = ''
if self.user:
if platform.system() == 'SunOS':
return "su '%s' -c '%s -l'" % (self.user, CRONCMD)
else:
user = '-u %s' % self.user
return "%s %s %s" % (CRONCMD , user, '-l')
def _write_execute(self, path):
"""
Return the command line for writing a crontab
"""
return "%s %s %s" % (CRONCMD, self._user_execute(), path)
def _user_execute(self):
"""
User command switches to append to the read and write commands.
"""
user = ''
if self.user:
return "%s %s" % ('-u', str(self.user))
return ''
if platform.system() == 'SunOS':
return "chown %s %s ; su '%s' -c '%s %s'" % (self.user, path, self.user, CRONCMD, path)
else:
user = '-u %s' % self.user
return "%s %s %s" % (CRONCMD , user, path)
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