Tracking Crontab

songahji has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

All,

let's say I have hundreds of jobs in the cron. Is there any perl module that prints out the entries better than 'crontab -l' ?

It would be nice if there is tool that prints entries in a way of weekly, monthly or yearly format. Hmm, I bet I need to write it myself.

Best regards,
Songahji

Comment on Tracking Crontab

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Re: Tracking Crontab by Fletch (Bishop) on Oct 02, 2008 at 12:58 UTC
Perhaps crontab2english? The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie.	[reply]
Re: Tracking Crontab by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 02, 2008 at 12:43 UTC
I guess the closest you'll find is Config::Crontab or one of the other Crontab parsers. I'm not aware of any "intelligent" summarizier that clusters the job based on their occurrence or other attributes.	[reply]
Re: Tracking Crontab by JavaFan (Canon) on Oct 02, 2008 at 12:44 UTC
You'd be better off in organising your crontab file in such a way it's grouped in the way you want. After all, if it's a mess, you'd still have to deal with this mess if you do "crontab -e", regardless of what kind of nifty tool you use to print out the jobs.	[reply]