On Sat, 20 Feb 2010, Paul M wrote:
> it's **Not clear whatproblem you're actualy trying to solve.**
>
What's so difficult about "need a way to edit crontab with something like
an nCurses" interface? That seems to be, by definition, simple,
point-and-click, definate options, no man pages, no vi editors, ...
> I can imagine a situation where your question is valid and sensible, but
> that would be just be me going off on a tangent - give us some
> background, explain *properly* why the answers you've been given are
> unsatisfactory.
> I have to say, it does sound to me as if you're being deliberately
> obtuse.
>
Certainly not intended, .. however I cannot imagine why the statment above
does not describe the problem accurately & succinctly.
> Give us the full story, and I'm sure you'll get a very good answer. Or
> several.
>
The chaps tweaking the crontab entries are Windoze admins, and they need
to adjust the start/stop times on cronjobs that start and stop replication
services. It would *seem* that there would be a way to apply all this
fancy technology we have in our toolkits for a simple, point-and-shoot (a
la nCurses) UI that requires no a priori knowledege other than an account
name & password.
Lee
