Gui calendar for crontab

I would love to be able to pull up a gui calendar in x windows that
shows all the crontab items that will run that day. It would save me a
bit of time in administration so I don't need to look at everyone's
crontab file. The product would ultimately also show how long a
process typically runs. I can then determine when is a good time to
shutdown or restart a db server. I don't need to add items to crontab
files with the calendar, just be able to view them.

C. Geier wrote:
> I would love to be able to pull up a gui calendar in x windows that
> shows all the crontab items that will run that day. It would save me a
> bit of time in administration so I don't need to look at everyone's
> crontab file. The product would ultimately also show how long a
> process typically runs. I can then determine when is a good time to
> shutdown or restart a db server. I don't need to add items to crontab
> files with the calendar, just be able to view them.

not exactly what you're looking for, but have you tried 'kcron' run as root?


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On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 13:06:58 -0700, C. Geier wrote:

> I would love to be able to pull up a gui calendar in x windows that
> shows all the crontab items that will run that day. It would save me a
> bit of time in administration so I don't need to look at everyone's
> crontab file. The product would ultimately also show how long a
> process typically runs. I can then determine when is a good time to
> shutdown or restart a db server. I don't need to add items to crontab
> files with the calendar, just be able to view them.

I'm new to linux but aren't you supposed to type 12 keystrokes on the
commandline to so this kind of thing?

grep (something) crontabs | sort (somehow) | > resultfile

Once you had it working you put it in a script and "bobs yer uncle". One
less flakey GUI program to worry about updating.

I'm starting to think in "bash mode". I think I will go lie down.

John