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From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Cron - First Saturday of the month
Message-ID: <1990Aug10.190517.1288@robobar.co.uk>
Date: 10 Aug 90 19:05:17 GMT
References: <1990Aug9.001850.19494@iwarp.intel.com> <1990Aug10.040654.17334@watserv1.waterloo.edu> <1990Aug10.063819.5253@iwarp.intel.com>
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In article <1990Aug10.063819.5253@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:

> Sigh.  Sorry.  I'll crawl under my rock now.  Cron's only for the
> heavyweights, anyway.

System V cron isn't just for heavyweights, though, it's got per-user
crontabs, remember, so joe-random-non-wizard who has his own crontab
has to understand the manpage.  Sigh.

Someone once mentioned wanting to write a System V-like cron in perl
so he could have per-user crontabs on his machine.  I wonder who
it was, and how he parsed the manpage ?
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