What's wrong with cron? [SOLVED]

Derek Broughton derek at pointerstop.ca
Thu Mar 5 17:43:22 UTC 2009


R Kimber wrote:

> On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:17:24 -0400
> Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>> Indeed.  I'm not actually sure what the correct way to
>> edit /etc/crontab is - I always just edited it :-)  These days I
>> usually use kcron, which differentiates between the "system" cron and
>> "root". --
> 
> Is kcron a stand-alone app, or must one be using KDE?

Well, its only KDE dependency is kdelibs - but that's pretty much the basis
of KDE...

You might also consider gcrontab, which is GTK based.
-- 
derek





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