scheduling with ease - HP-UX 10.20

[M Yasir Khan_1]

Hi all,

I am using hp-ux 10.20. i was wondering if there is any tool/utility available which can give me some ease in scheduling my scripts.

may be some tool which will run on windows gui and create the cron file which will may later be used with crontab.

any help will be highly appriciated.

regards,

Yasir.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Yasir,

I don't know a tool for windows but you can take a look at gcrontab.

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/gcrontab-0.6.6/

Regards,
Robert-Jan.

[Mark Grant]

This might be using an enormous hammer to crack a very small nut but you could do worse than use "kcron". This is a GUI around cron. HOWEVER, it does mean you install a large chunk of the K Desktop Environment too as well as QT.

Have a look at http://www.kde.org and see if you're interested

[M Yasir Khan_1]

thanks alot for your help. Actually the hp server we are using is without any gui/x windows system.

thats y i asked for anything for windows gui.

btw, i also have one Linux Redhat system. can any1 suggest some GUI based software for that, which will enable me to create the cron file on my linuc box and use it on my hp server.

thanks in advance... and thanks for for this much quick responses.

Yasir.

[Mark Grant · Accepted solution]

You can use both the above suggestions on your Linux box and you "might" be able to move it over to HP ok.

As long as you don't use linux specific things such as cron variables and just stick to managing the commands and the times at which they run, you will probably be OK.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/gcrontab.html

http://linuxberg.vol.at/gnomehtml/preview/55023.html

Regards,
Robert-Jan