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It's ugly, simple and flexible. I can live with its ugliness (I don't change my crontab every day, after all) and simplicity and flexibility beat ini format/UX/
by koytch 10y ago
It's ugly, simple and flexible. I can live with its ugliness (I don't change my crontab every day, after all) and simplicity and flexibility beat ini format/UX/etc. any time AFAIC.
- berntb 10y agoMy main problem with the cron syntax is that is error prone. I'd like it to be a bit harder to get correct syntax when you write something wrong. But a simple GUI could take care of that.
- bpchaps 10y agoSomething curses based would be nice - no need for a GUI ;). Cron's syntax can be hellish. For example, % is treated as a special newline character (ugh) so that commands like this don't work - and it's very difficult to troubleshoot: appstartup.sh | tee -a app.`date +%Y%m%d`.log