Added new script to handle loading files into the db and updating them. Python handled it better than bash.

Scripts/update-database.py

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+import sqlite3
+from pathlib import Path
+
+dirs = (
+        '/etc/cron.d/',
+        '/etc/cron.hourly',
+        '/etc/cron.daily',
+        '/etc/cron.monthly',
+        '/var/spool/cron/crontabs'
+)
+
+fs_files = dict()
+db_files = dict()
+
+
+
+
+# Get crontabs from each crontab directory (if it exists)
+for dir in [ Path(dir) for dir in dirs ]:
+    if dir.exists():
+        for fs_file in dir.iterdir():
+            if fs_file.is_file():
+                with fs_file.open('r') as file:
+                    fs_files.update({str(fs_file.absolute()):file.read()})
+
+
+conn = sqlite3.connect('../webcron.db')
+cur = conn.cursor()
+
+# Get the path and data of each of the crontabs in the db
+cur.execute("SELECT crontab_path, crontab_data FROM crontabs")
+for path, data in cur.fetchall(): 
+    db_files.update({path:data})
+
+
+# Put files into db if they do not exist there already
+for file_path, file_data in fs_files.items():
+    if file_path not in db_files:
+        cur.execute("INSERT INTO crontabs (crontab_path, crontab_data) VALUES (?,?)",(file_path, file_data,))
+    else:
+        if file_data != db_files[file_path]:
+            cur.execute("UPDATE crontabs SET crontab_data = ? WHERE crontab_path = ?",(file_data, file_path,))
+
+
+# Commit changes from memory into db-file
+conn.commit()
+
+
+

setup-server.sh

@@ -21,6 +21,13 @@ fi
 # (-y) just means assume yes (for package download and updates)
 apt update -y && apt upgrade -y
 
+declare -a python_packages=(
+    # To enumerate the files from the FS
+    pathlib
+
+    #sqlite3 # this is already preinstalled
+)
+
 # These are the packages needed for setting up the server for my PHP application
 declare -a needed_packages=(
 	# Webserver packages
@@ -35,6 +42,8 @@ declare -a needed_packages=(
 	acl
 
 	# Necessary Project Packages
+    python3
+    python3-pip
 	sqlite3
 
 	# Check packages
@@ -52,12 +61,16 @@ for package in ${needed_packages[@]}; do
 done
 
 unset needed_packages
-
 # Installing the packages that aren't already installed
-apt install -y ${packages_to_install}
+apt install -y ${packages_to_install[@]}
 
 # Start: Filesystem Setup
 
+# Install the necessary python packages 
+python3 -m pip install --user ${python_packages[@]}
+unset python_packages
+
+
 # This will give the webcron user the ability to read, write and execute crontab in all of the regular places
 delcare -a crontab_dirs=(
 	# All of the normal system crontabs are located here
@@ -67,12 +80,14 @@ delcare -a crontab_dirs=(
 	/etc/cron.weekly
 	/etc/cron.monthly
 
-	# These are the crontabs created by users of the system
-	/var/spool/cron/crontabs
+    # Depending on the system, user crontabs are stored in this directory and the crontabs sub directory doesn't exist
+	/var/spool/cron
+	# These are the crontabs created by users of the system (commented out becuse the above acl would include this directory and files
+	#/var/spool/cron/crontabs
 )
 
 for dir in ${crontab_dirs[@]}; do
-	# This (while not changing the permissions via chmod)
+	# This (while not changing the permissions via chmod) what will allow the webcron user to access all of the crontab directories & files
 	setfacl -m u:webcron:rwx -R $dir
 done