L. V. Lammert wrote:
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, bofh wrote:
What kind of basic unix admin can't deal with
% export EDITOR=vi
% crontab -e
?
Didn't say they were *unix* admins, .. no way I'd saddle some of these
guys with vi, much less setting the cron time parameters correctly.
Lee
There is a simple and effective system for this level.
Have them write all their cron stuff in their crontab-let pad
Set crontab-alarm clock to go off at appropriate times
Type in commands from crontab-let pad.
Never fails
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