[TAG] Cron Sandbox

[Ben Okopnik]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 09:31:07AM -0700, Thomas Bonham wrote:
> dar ksyte wrote:
>>
>> Cron Sandbox at HxPI offers an opportunity to play with the crontab
>> scheduling commands in safety.
>>
>> Type in the 'm h D M Dw' parameters and see a calendar of job
>> execution times/dates.
>
>> www.hxpi.com/cron_sandbox.php
>   
> Here is a little web page that I wrote last spring for crontab.
> 
> http://bonhamlinux.org/crontab

Unfortunately, your page doesn't perform any validation or parsing of
the arguments, or show when the specified entry would run; the one
referred to by the OP does. I don't mean to knock your effort, but it's
not the same category of thing at all.

'crontab', as Joey showed in his article, is a fairly complex beast, and
checking its syntax is a good idea for those who aren't yet comfortable
with it, is a good idea.


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