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ac_prog_crontab

Synopsis

AC_PROG_CRONTAB

Description

Check for the program crontab, if exists let script continue, else pops an error message

Besides checking existence, this macro also set these environment variables upon completion:

    CRONTAB = which crontab

Author

Gleen Salmon <gleensalmon@yahoo.com>

Last Modified

2002-04-11

M4 Source Code

AC_DEFUN([AC_PROG_CRONTAB],[
AC_REQUIRE([AC_EXEEXT])dnl
AC_PATH_PROG(CRONTAB, crontab$EXEEXT, nocommand)
if test "$CRONTAB" = nocommand; then
        AC_MSG_ERROR([crontab (needed for scheduled job) not found in $PATH])
fi;dnl
])