-----Original Message----- From: Dirk Gently Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 8:35 PM To: Paul Groves Subject: Re: [opensuse] Scheduled Cron Jobs in YaST Paul Groves wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone know if it is possible to create and edit Cron Jobs in YaST instead of modifying the files directly? I cannot find anything in the OpenSUSE manuals.
Any help is appreciated.
What's the advantage to that? If you don't understand cron jobs, then you shouldn't be messing with them anyway, regardless of what interface you work through. The current way is the best way, because those who don't know what they're looking at will shy away from messing with crontab and related files. Dumbing-down crucial administration tasks is NOT a win -- because it makes it easy for the under-informed to fool themselves into thinking they know what they're doing. It's purely for ease of administration as I am the only one at my place of work who understands crontab. If there was a nice YaST plugin that just showed when the tasks run and what they run then my colleagues can troubleshoot in my absence. I was thinking of something like FreeNAS has in it's web interface, you click a'dd cronjob', click checkboxes and type in time(s) for when you want it to run then type a command. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org