[Spacewalk-list] triggering scripts on a client machine

[Brian Collins]

> what I want to do is upload the files once ( the 60+ files ) ,but be
able to
> schedule a remote command to run on a weekly/monthly basis .
> 
> i guess the second part can be done via a cron entry .
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Correct.  In fact, you can upload the files (to say, /usr/local/sbin),
and then also upload a cron table to root's (or someone else's) cron
(/var/spool/cron/root), or just put symlinks in
/etc/cron.{weekly,daily,etc}.  The API lets you "upload" symlinks just
like it does files.