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Re: crontab

2002-09-11 04:19:23
Subject: Re: crontab
From: Brian Jonnes <brian AT init.co DOT za>
To: Gene Heskett <gene_heskett AT iolinc DOT net>, Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>, amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 09:55:12 +0200
On Tue 10 Sep 02 18:53, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Don't feel like the lone stranger Brian.  Somebody really *should*
> write a book on howto use cron.  No denigration of Paul Vixie
> intended, but the docs (what there is) suck.  But I guess thats

man 5 crontab isn't _too_ bad.

> what we get when a usefull utility gets into the habit because
> nothing else does the job quite as elegantly, particularly one
> written back in jurrasic computer times and which is probably old

We should replace it with... Unix Task Scheduler!!! Ha! And you have to have 
a web-browser to configure it.

..Brian
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