A dumb script to generate a crontab

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+import re
+
+mailto = "recipient-of-any-errors@localhost"
+user = "user-to-run-as"
+location = "/path/to/alaveteli"
+
+template = open("config/crontab.ugly").read()
+template = re.sub(r"MAILTO=.*", "MAILTO=%s" % mailto, template)
+template = template.replace("!!(*= $user *)!!", user)
+template = re.sub(r"/data/vhost/.*/script", location + "/script", template)
+
+print template
+
+
+