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You can access Crontab Manager interface in the server-manager and then you can easily create/delete crons.
 
You can access Crontab Manager interface in the server-manager and then you can easily create/delete crons.
  
After you made your changes, it is necessary to manually run the following command from the command line:
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After you have made your changes and saved the session the changes will be written to the file /etc/crontab
  
  expand-template /etc/crontab
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On SME versions prior to SME7 to update the crontab file you must issue the following from the command line expand-template /etc/crontab.
 
 
Without this command, the Crontab contrib does NOT apply the changes you made via the server-manager (Reason: Crontab Manager was developed for SME 6.* and developement seems to be discontinued).
 
  
 
==Convert to UTF8==
 
==Convert to UTF8==

Revision as of 06:37, 28 June 2013


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Crontab Manager for SME 6.x and above

see bugzilla:7464 Ap.Muthu's updated Version 2.1-1 for SME 6/7/8/9 is available in the bugtracker site and cached here. Not yet in the smecontribs repos. Manually install with:

rpm -Uvh smeserver-crontab_manager-2.1-1.noarch.rpm

When using it in SME 9, move the cronmanager.pm file to the appropriate perl folder.

Maintainer

Michel Van hees

Description

Cron Manager in the server-manager.

Installation

wget "http://www.vanhees.cc/index.php?name=CmodsDownload&file=index&req=getit&lid=232"
yum localinstall sme-crontab_manager-1.2-4.noarch.rpm

Uninstallation

rpm -e sme-crontab_manager

Use

You can access Crontab Manager interface in the server-manager and then you can easily create/delete crons.

After you have made your changes and saved the session the changes will be written to the file /etc/crontab

On SME versions prior to SME7 to update the crontab file you must issue the following from the command line expand-template /etc/crontab.

Convert to UTF8

This contrib was developped with a non utf8 format to convert it safely after installation if you are unable to access to the server-manager panel, as root:

cd ~
wget http://smeserver.pialasse.com/fichiers/convert_utf-8.sh
sh convert_utf-8.sh

Additional Info