On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Johan Beisser wrote:

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> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:21 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl@omnitec.net> wrote:
>
> > No, that isn't going to work. This isn't some elitist club - if we can't
> > provide a simple, sane, safe way for a [priviledged] user to push a backup
> > image out to a DR server, than *we* have failed as technologists.
>
> Wait.
>
> What the hell is so hard about:
>
If you have to ask what's so hard, it's too hard. The OP was about making
the process **SIMPLE**, .. not complicated. Man pages are used to learn
about a command, .. not a way to perform a specific command such as
"change the replicatio0 schedule to start at 8PM instead of 6PM".

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>  While lines in a user crontab have five fixed fields plus a command
> in the form:
>
>            minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week command
>  [...]
>
Yeah right. That isn't SIMPLE by any definition.

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> Being a UNIX Systems Admin means knowing your tools, and most
> importantly your toolkits. Cron is a tool, making it "simpler" for a
> new admin is doing you both a disservice in the long run.
>
The question was about a way to provide a way to change a crontab entry
for ***NON SYS ADMINS***.

	Lee