Crontab Wizard

[blood_x]

Greetings..

Here, I would to make a suggestion about "Crontab' help. I've found one eggdrop/shell provider that make crontab wizard which means the user enter their eggdrop data, then the website guide it step by step. But now, seems that website has been sold! Some newbie has difficulties in setup crontab process even they read 'readme.txt' etc etc.

So here, I suggest that slennox and their admins will make User Friendly eggdrop support service such as Wizard to create eggdrop.conf, wizard to create crontab.. etc etc via online webpage. It will lead more HITS to egghelp.org

Thanks for reading my suggestion

[slennox]

Auto-generators, in my humble opinion, are a poor halfway house between a fully automatic, GUI-controlled eggdrop/shell and understanding how to use text-based configuration yourself. I don't have any intention of creating the former (even though I toyed with it years ago), so egghelp.org will continue to focus on the latter. I intend to improve the documentation side of egghelp.org to make it easier for people to learn how to find and use a shell and set up and use an eggdrop.

At the moment, there a section under http://www.egghelp.org/setup.htm#config called "Editing the botchk file" (kind of buried under the config file "recommendations" which I hope to get rid of) which seems adequate to get up and running, but doesn't do much to explain the crontab line itself. I'll write that one down, since it's a topic that would be useful to address in a revamped shell guide.

[CrazyCat]

crontab wizard?
don't need a full page to do that, it's simple, the explanation is quite the same than for a bind time, except that there are some tips:
using */5 will make a check at each [range] / 5, so:
*/5 * * * * is same than 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * *

simple, isn't it?

[CrazyCat]

Auto-generators, in my humble opinion, are a poor halfway house between a fully automatic, GUI-controlled eggdrop/shell and understanding how to use text-based configuration yourself. I don't have any intention of creating the former (even though I toyed with it years ago), so egghelp.org will continue to focus on the latter. I intend to improve the documentation side of egghelp.org to make it easier for people to learn how to find and use a shell and set up and use an eggdrop.

I had, in the past, created a small php script to auto-generate eggdrop.conf, but I stopped for 2 reasons:
- I was using eggdrop.simple.conf and sure, most of users need properties of eggdrop.complete.conf
- I notice that most of the pple who use my engine don't try to understand, and I hate when pple use tools without understanding.

So, like Slennox said, it's better having some infos and way to unblock than having something "ready to eat", wich won't help you to increase your knowledges.

And remember that there's no stupid question...