On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:21 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl@omnitec.net> wrote:

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> No, that isn't going to work. This isn't some elitist club - if we can't
> provide a simple, sane, safe way for a [priviledged] user to push a backup
> image out to a DR server, than *we* have failed as technologists.

Wait.

What the hell is so hard about:

 jb@eris:~ $ man -k crontab
 crontab (1) - maintain crontab files for individual users
 crontab (5) - tables for driving cron

 jb@eris:~ $ man 5 crontab

 [...]
 While lines in a user crontab have five fixed fields plus a command
in the form:

           minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week command
 [...]

If the "[privileged]" user is unwilling to learn, and further
unwilling to look this stuff up online to check his setups are right,
and -worse- unwilling to check their work (you know, that thing you're
supposed to have learned to do in elementary school before you turn in
your homework), we should provide a framework around their needs?
Really?

Being a UNIX Systems Admin means knowing your tools, and most
importantly your toolkits. Cron is a tool, making it "simpler" for a
new admin is doing you both a disservice in the long run.

jb