Re: Crontab configuration tool

Using system-config-samba, I have melted your python project to a
ready-for-pam with some minor build environment (Makefiles) thing.

Feel free to use/not use for future development.

It would be nice to have CVS for this project.

Btw. I can use some major GUI redesign actually. It's still WAY to hard
for the average user to set a scheduled task using the GUI.

Maybe some presets should be made:

* Create a scheduled task that starts every day at [  ]h
* Create a scheduled task that starts every [sunday [+]] at[  ]h

And perhaps a tab with "Advanced" for the less standard records.

And a treeview (only columns) with something like:

+-------------+-------------------+-------------------------+
| Frequency   |   Command         | send output/results to  |
+-------------+-------------------+-------------------------+
|Every sunday | /opt/backup.pl    |  mail of root           |
|  at 2:00    |                   |                         |
+-------------+-------------------+-------------------------+
| Every day   | /opt/wakemeup.pl  | /dev/null               |
|  at 9:00    |                   |                         |
+-------------+-------------------+-------------------------+


KISS (Keep it Simple Stupid)

And in the advanced view you can do the 

* * * * * command > /dev/null

It would be cool if the application could parse such lines to
less-hard-to-understand messages. The not-easy-to-translate lines could
then go to the "Advanced"-tab and in the "Normal users"-tab it should
show information about records being only in the "Advanced"-tab.

But maybe other people have another opinion of course ..


However, nice job ..



On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 21:37 +0200, Gaute Hope wrote:
> I have developed a tool for configuring crontab using Python and PyGtk.
> It is located at: http://gaute.eu.org/stasj/cronconf
> 
> It works by reading 'crontab -l' into a file and parse it. And then
> write a new crontab config file and install it with 'crontab <file>'
> This should make it work on different crontab versions, haven't tested
> though.
> 
> You may choose to just save the config file without installing it so
> that you can install it on another computer.
> 
> The add crontab dialoge got a simple time expression builder, mainly to
> make the expression and combine them if necessary.
> 
> If you run as root you can choose to edit other users crontabs, and your
> own since the USER environment variable doesn't update on some terminals
> when you su. The first argument is then the user.
> 
> I plan to make it able to configure 'at' as well. But haven't started
> anything there yet.
> 
> 
> I'd be happy to hear any comments.
> 
> 
> Sorry to most more than once, but mailing lists doesn't like me.
> 
> Gaute Hope
> 
> 
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