topic Re: graphical cron interface in Operating System - HP-UX

graphical cron interface

Christopher J. Little — Fri, 12 Oct 2001 16:07:02 GMT

I've been trying to find a graphical cron interface (either text based or motif) that runs on 11.x. I don't particularly need the ability to modify/add/delete cron entries, just see them laid out all in the same place. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Chris

Re: graphical cron interface

Gregory Fruth — Fri, 12 Oct 2001 16:19:48 GMT

su -
cat /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*

Re: graphical cron interface

Christopher J. Little — Fri, 12 Oct 2001 16:25:27 GMT

Ok, I guess I should have clarified a bit more... I don't want to just see all of the cron entries in one place as if I were editing them. I'd like to have them laid out in a calendar like format, where I could drill down to each day and have a visual representation of what will be running and when. Just as with most actual calendar/planning programs (Outlook, Netscape Calendar, etc...) I would see a block of time as being occupied, and would "click" that block of time to see what is going on. I'm looking for something similar that works with cron entries.

Chris

Re: graphical cron interface

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Fri, 12 Oct 2001 16:32:14 GMT

Chris,

There is nothing like a special graphical/command interface for cronjobs except SAM.But is only limited to root cronjobs. YOu can't view user cronjobs through SAM, I guess.

It's a very simple process. They are all
in /var/spool/cron/crontabs (owned by root) directory under each users name depending on the cron capabilities set in /var/adm/cron/cron.allow file.

As a user you can view your crontab file with the command crontab -l and edit it using crontab -e.

Else you can make a copy using crontab -l > cron.file Edit this file,make changes, save and
then do crontab cron.file to make it effective.

But root can view graphical/text window to check the cron using SAM.

-Sri

Re: graphical cron interface

melvyn burnard — Fri, 12 Oct 2001 16:33:34 GMT

You might want to see if there is anything at the following site:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/

Software Porting And Archive Centre for HP-UX

Re: graphical cron interface

Wodisch — Fri, 12 Oct 2001 22:26:11 GMT

Hello Chris,

you will have to write your own GUI, I am afraid.
Have a look at "dtksh" (DeskTop KornSHell), or TCL/Tk
(Tool Command Language/Toolkit), as it is pretty simple
to write GUI wrappers around your scripts with both of
them. There is even a TCL/Tk plaugin to netscape...
HTH,
Wodisch

Re: graphical cron interface

Jeromy Gregg — Tue, 13 Nov 2001 19:15:32 GMT

I do not know of a GUI interface to cron which lays everything out in calander format; however, I do know that the WEBMIN tool (http://www.webmin.com/webmin) does have a CRON GUI, an example of which can be found at http://www.webmin.com/webmin/screens/edit_cron.html.

Also, there are third party software products, such as Legato Maestro, (which is now called WorkLoad Scheduler) and even HP's own ITO which provide scheduler capabilities, similar to CRON, but which provide GUI/CLI interaces, increased security, enhanced scheduling, etc.

If you do decide to write your own interface, as previously suggested, I would be interested in seeing it.

Re: graphical cron interface

Roger Baptiste — Tue, 13 Nov 2001 21:13:51 GMT

hi,

There is a freeware-vcron- here from
the world of Linux, but the author says it should work fine with other flavours of unix. Probably you can certify it for hpux11 ;-)

<<>>

There is another one called
kcron, but it is for kde interface on linux.

One probable reason why there is no established gui cron tool could be because anything beyond the system scheduling tasks is taken care
by thirdparty software. Especially the ones users manage.

-raj

Re: graphical cron interface

someone_4 — Tue, 13 Nov 2001 22:30:01 GMT

I would go with the webmin ..

http://www.webmin.com/webmin/screens/edit_cron.html

its really cool!

Richard