[GRLUG] Editing crontabs from CLI - ncurses?

[john-thomas richards]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 01:54:18PM -0500, John J. Foerch wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:11:47AM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> > Looking to setup a simple admin interface for adjusting the schedule of a
> > backup job controlled by cron, .. there are a few X based tools (e.g.
> > Visual Cron), .. but I would really like to avoid comlicating matters with
> > an X session on remote machines.
> > 
> > A secondary goal is to setup management of cron tasks on a number of
> > remote machines.
> > 
> > Anyone ever seen such a tool?
> > 
> > 	TIA!
> > 
> > 	Lee
> 
> 
> 
> I just use crontab -e.
> -- 
> John Foerch

I *really* wanted to recommend vim.  :-)

Seriously, though, crontab is not particularly complex.  One could learn
its syntax well enough to not need a manpage in about a half hour.  Now
if the interface is meant for end users...well...
-- 
john-thomas
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