[Cialug] Editing crontabs from CLI - ncurses?

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:39 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> Looking to setup a simple admin interface for scheduling, .. there are a
> few X based tools (e.g. Visual Cron), .. but I would really like to avoid
> comlicating matters with an X session on remote machines.
>
> A secondary goal is to setup management of cron tasks on a number of
> remote machines.
>
> Anyone ever seen such a tool?

"crontab -e" will bring up a text editor with the current crontab and
allow you to edit it.  Read "man 5 crontab" for details on the format.

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Jeff Ollie