Re: Crontab configuration tool

Ah yes, of course.. sorry.. yes good idea. i'll look at it.

- gaute hope

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 09:04:30PM +0100, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 09:55:07PM +0200, Gaute Hope wrote:
> > Yes, but wouldn't it be easier to use the output from 'crontab -l' and install it with 'crontab' instead of having to use the commands of the editor aswell.. which i, don't know, perhaps change slightly from crontab version to version.
> 
> I wasn't proposing that you use the editor as a backend. :)
> 
> Rather, when cronconf is invoked have it call crontab with the
> EDITOR=cronconf as a environment variable. Then your configuration program
> will be invoked to edit a temporary file in a safe environment.
> 
> This can also be used to edit some other cronfile by the user.
> 
> Regards,
> Luciano Rocha
> 
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