Strings in cron commands (ex. @reboot)

[Babovand]

I would like suggest the option to be able to use strings in cron, since for some reason, the user crontab gets "reset" every time i reboot my machine, hence i cannot edit and save it manually, for cron settings to persist, it has to be entered from the cron web-gui.

This makes it impossible(?) to use cron with strings because the web-gui(?) adds stars ( * ) in front of the command, making the @reboot command invalid and also crontab commands does not exist, i suspect the stars come from the choosing of "all" in Time schedule of the cron, whatever i choose it stills adds something in front of @reboot.

I was trying to do this on N4F, turns out it did not start rtorrent, it was an old script that i've made and did not remove.
viewtopic.php?f=47&t=1671#p9160

Here is a pic of what im trying to do
http://i45.tinypic.com/30lotv6.png

a drop down menu or something containing these cron strings would be awesome

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  @reboot	   Run once, at startup.
	   @yearly	   Run once a year, "0 0 1 1 *".
	   @annually	   (same as @yearly)
	   @monthly	   Run once a month, "0 0 1 * *".
	   @weekly	   Run once a week, "0 0 * * 0".
	   @daily	   Run once a day, "0 0 * * *".
	   @midnight	   (same as @daily)
	   @hourly	   Run once an hour, "0 * * * *".

Here is the page from crontab containing more information about the strings.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?quer ... .0-RELEASE