Re: At the risk of sounding like an AS/400 rah-rah...

use webmin if you don't want to modify the crontab specifically.  Sure, it's
a gui, but a LOT of unix admins use it for administration for a variety of
duties.

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

believe it or not, I can't recall how to run a scheduled job only once :/
My mind is mush

Now I have to spend time lookign it up
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:44 AM
Subject: RE: At the risk of sounding like an AS/400 rah-rah...


> > From: Adam Lang
> >
> > Well, the conversation segued with "PC servers are junk".
> > Windows/Unix runs
> > on PC servers.  And since you said it was originally UNIX, cron and
> > shell scripts are very powerful.
>
> "Very powerful."  Okay.  Show me how to do the following in cron:
>
> ADDJOBSCDE JOB(MYJOB)
>            CMD(CALL PGM(MYPGM))
>            FRQ(*ONCE)
>            SCDTIME(200000)
>
> This runs a call to MYPGM tonight at 8:00PM.  It's a one-shot, only needs
to
> be run once.  I can also do this on the SBMJOB command, by the way.
>
> It's a truism that ANYTHING can be done on ANY computer.  The issue is WHO
> can do it.  Can an operator do it using standard OS commands?  On the
> AS/400, the answer is definitely yes.  On Unix, I'm not so sure.  I don't
> think I'd want an operator editing crontab.
>
> Joe
>
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