On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 04:14:44PM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote: > 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, ...
vi(1) is a ncurses interface. > > > 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 In the time you've been spamming my inbox, every half-competent sysadmin could have learned ncurses(3) and write the perfect(tm) interface for his purpose. I'll just leave this here: http://doxfer.com/Webmin/ScheduledCommands#The_Scheduled_Commands_module
