[Cronie-devel] Have a way to check syntax in crontabs file

[Marc MAURICE]

Hi all,

A very common mistake is to put syntax errors in /etc/cron.d/* files. 
(not to mention the most common mistake is to forget the username... 
crontab -e syntax..)

Actually the only way to be sure it's ok is to check the right syslog 
file for errors. And you have to wait some time for cronie to reload the 
config.

It will be very handy to have a command to :
* check the syntax,
* or reload the config and report errors on stdout
* or being able to edit /etc crontab files with crontab -e command ?

Question also asked here : 
http://serverfault.com/questions/43733/is-there-a-way-to-validate-etc-cronta...

Thanks in advance !
Marc