On 19 February 2010 14:37, L. V. Lammert <l...@omnitec.net> wrote: > On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Kevin Wilcox wrote:
>> If *you* are letting underqualified users have privileged access to an >> Unix machine then the failure here is *you*. > Didn't say they had access to the **MACHINE** THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT FOR > THE NCURSES QUESTION, if you had bothered to read the OP instead of > bitching about what you THOUGHT it meant. Lee - if they don't have access to the machine then **why are you looking for alternatives to crontab**? If they don't have access to the machine then how in blazes are their changes going to useful other than as a text file on some random machine that isn't the one they need to be active on? Which is to say - I've read the entire thread so far and this is the first time you've said they won't have access to the machine. Instead of asking "what is an alternative to <foo>", you should come out and say exactly what problem you need to solve, because as of this post it has become a moving target. kmw -- A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top-posting. Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
