Crontooie 1.0 review

crontab is both the name of a unix system file and the utility program which users normally employ to edit it.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 1K Developer: Brian Johnson Price: $0.00 Updated: 17 Jan 2006

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crontab is both the name of a unix system file and the utility program which users normally employ to edit it. The crontab file is important because it controls the cron facility built into Mac OS-X, through which you can run unix scripts (file backup, database updates, etc.) on a regularly scheduled basis. crontab is usually edited with the vi editor, a particularly arcane and obscure program. I don't know about you, but it drives me nuts.

So, I wrote Crontooie to provide a graphical editor for the crontab file.
Crontooie gives you a simple interface to your crontab file allowing you to add and remove jobs as well as edit the scheduling fields that control them.

Crontooie is an Applescript Studio application which uses the do shell script system interface routine to retrieve and replace your crontab file. Editing utilizes the Applescript Studio's Table interface entity to display the crontab data.