Many jobs you do on a computer system need to run over and over again. A lot of them even have to run frequently at the same time or same date. This referrs to jobs like
This is where cron services can save system administrators and even normal users a lot of their time. You just run the cron daemon which will then run the scheduled jobs on the appropriate date or time. The information when and what commands are to be executed are stored in so called cron tables.
Editing the text-based cron tables by hand is often quite painful and not a secure method if the user is unexperienced. kcrontab is a little program which hopefully will be helping those users a lot who want to edit their crontables by using a comprehensive GUI. The authors hope that it will make cron services popular to KDE Users. Allso it should reduce errors that are caused by misfunctional crontabs.