On Wednesday 11 September 2002 03:55, Brian Jonnes wrote:
>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

Well, those users of the kde desktop suite do have the choice of 
using kcron to configure stuff, and which has the advantage of 
showing, if you are root, every cron job on the system.  But it has 
one glaringly huge gotcha when trying to setup sequenced operations 
that require online access with an autodial script, and that is its 
5 minute granularity based on a half a screen full of checkboxes.
If you have already setup something for a 1 minute interval, and try 
to edit it, kcron will mung that entry rather nicely.  Not.

Where might a sample of this scheduler with a web interface be seen, 
or dl'd?

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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