On 19 February 2010 14:37, L. V. Lammert <lvl@omnitec.net> wrote:

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> On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Kevin Wilcox wrote:

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>> If *you* are letting underqualified users have privileged access to an
>> Unix machine then the failure here is *you*.

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> Didn't say they had access to the **MACHINE** THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT FOR
> THE NCURSES QUESTION, if you had bothered to read the OP instead of
> bitching about what you THOUGHT it meant.

Lee -

if they don't have access to the machine then **why are you looking
for alternatives to crontab**?

If they don't have access to the machine then how in blazes are their
changes going to useful other than as a text file on some random
machine that isn't the one they need to be active on?

Which is to say - I've read the entire thread so far and this is the
first time you've said they won't have access to the machine.

Instead of asking "what is an alternative to <foo>", you should come
out and say exactly what problem you need to solve, because as of this
post it has become a moving target.

kmw

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