#1 2015-10-13 11:52:10

redcollective

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CRON GUI recommendation needed

I'll admit it, I'm command-line-lazy. I'm looking for a recommendation for a cron GUI that:

1. isn't ancient
2. requires a webserver
3. riddled with dependencies

Any recommendations?

I've looked at gnome-schedule - seems old, anything better?

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redcollective

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Re: CRON GUI recommendation needed

You perhaps underestimate the extent of my command-line-laziness 

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Re: CRON GUI recommendation needed

Silly question, but why are you worried about ancient? cron is pretty ancient too, and so far as I'm aware, not a lot has changed in a long time, so a gui won't have needed to be changed to track non-changes.

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redcollective

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Re: CRON GUI recommendation needed

Not a silly question at all, it's just a rule of thumb I've grown up using as a non-technical user, to gauge the quality and modernity of the apps I choose to use. Like if I'm interested in an open source project, I'll check the frequency and regularity of updates, number of contributors etc as a broad measure of quality/utility/modernity. It may not be right and I'm prepared to be educated by better advice!

To illustrate, I chose bunsenlabs and not some other distro  ( no particular names mentioned )  based on these sort of criteria.

Gnome-schedule doesn't appear to have had any love in the debian repositories since 2010, with the most recent version still languishing in *cringe* sourceforge.

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pingu

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Re: CRON GUI recommendation needed

what if you don't have a choice?

I'm not going to search for a cron gui, but in the case you give up and decide to use the commandline here's a good howto on how to add crontab entries: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-i-a … unix-oses/
I'm kind of out of touch with the debian system, but in my case I had to add the user to  cron group.

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pingu

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Re: CRON GUI recommendation needed

I have just rememered that when I used to use kde I would use kalarm for that ---you can set actions at certain intervals.. but imo It's just much easier and efficient to use cron if you don't want crazy alarms and flashy screen notifications too.

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Re: CRON GUI recommendation needed

How about one of these:

http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/cronweb.htm

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redcollective

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Re: CRON GUI recommendation needed

How about one of these:

http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/cronweb.htm

Debian archaeology 

Rapidly arriving at the conclusion I should MAN up (literally - as read the MANual).

Found these little helper websites which together perhaps provide all the commandline assistance I'd like:

http://www.corntab.com/pages/crontab-gui for crafting entries

http://www.cronchecker.net/ for checking entries

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Re: CRON GUI recommendation needed

but I'm just tossing pebbles into the pot here. 

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Re: CRON GUI recommendation needed

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Re: CRON GUI recommendation needed

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geekosupremo

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Re: CRON GUI recommendation needed

Some things I've found that may be useful:

• http://corntab.com/pages/crontab-gui - It's not a gui persay but it is a visual way to write the crontab file

• hhttps://github.com/alseambusher/crontab-ui- This might be more along the lines of what you're looking for, and it's a node.js module which means you can probably make it web page viewable