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[Fraser Campbell]

On Wednesday 26 November 2003 15:16, JoeHill wrote:

> Scheduled Tasks?!", tell them to read man crontab? They'll drop it like a
> hot potato and run screaming back. Which is *why* some kind-hearted souls
> came up with sol'ns like cron-apt, Webmin, or in Mandrake the Cron tool in
> Control Center.

You're correct.  A lot of people seem to prefer clicking around in GUIs until 
they get it right rather than understanding it and getting it right in the 
first place ;-)  For cron GUIs there's kcron which provides a reasonable 
enough interface, I'm sure gnome must have an equivalent as well.

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