You might approach it from the opposite direction. Keep the crontab under SVN or the like and embed an $Id$ line in a comment. Then you can look at what revision of that is installed on the server to tell if that change has been made yet on that server.

And while cfengine would be a good mechanism for pushing the files out I don't think it really logs the change anywhere (at least from my understanding from giving it a quick once over). That's not to say that you couldn't extract what's been pushed where from cfengine's logs after the fact, but that'd just be moving the problem as well.

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In reply to Re: ChangeLog updates from a perl script? by Fletch
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