Graphical Front End To Crontab Missing?

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 4/14/06, Andrew Price <andy at andrewprice.me.uk> wrote:
> I use crontab to run jobs such as playing music to wake me up in the
> morning and it occurs to me that less experienced Windows users
> switching to Ubuntu might think that Ubuntu lacks the equivalent of a
> "task scheduler" because there is no GUI tool to set up cron jobs. I
> think a tool of this sort would be handy since crontab syntax takes a
> bit of getting used to and is currently command-line based.
>
> Am I being blind and a crontab GUI tool of this kind exists or is this a
> niche in Ubuntu's package repertoire? If so, should it be installed by
> default in Ubuntu? Does it not exist and need somebody to start it as a
> project? Should I be posting to ubuntu-devel? :)

You are thinking of something like gcrontab from the universe repository?

>From it's description:

"GTK based crontab editor
gcrontab is a simple GTK editor for the UNIX cron system."




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Daniel Robitaille