#!/usr/bin/python # This script inserts the mailman user name into the crontab entries after # the 5 time/date fields so that it can be installed under /etc/cron.d # # usage: mailman-crontab-edit [-s src_file] [-u mailman_user] [-d dst_file] # src_file defaults to stdin # mailman_user defaults to mailman # dst_file defaults to stdout import sys, re, getopt srcFile = None dstFile = None mmUser = None opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "s:d:u:") for o, a in opts: if o == "-s": srcFile = a if o == "-d": dstFile = a if o == "-u": mmUser = a if srcFile: inFD = open(srcFile) else: inFD = sys.stdin if dstFile: outFD = open(dstFile, mode='w') else: outFD = sys.stdout if not mmUser: mmUser = "mailman" comment_re = re.compile(r'^\s*#') time_date_re = re.compile(r'(^\s*(\S+\s+){5,5})') for line in inFD: if not comment_re.search(line): match = time_date_re.search(line) if match: line = time_date_re.sub(r'\1 %s ' % mmUser, line) print >>outFD, line,