Scheduling Commands with crontab
April 13th, 2009 by Shawn Powers in
Use crontab to schedule commands to run at specified intervals.
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KAlarm
On April 13th, 2009 Madhukar Kedlaya (not verified) says:
I use KAlarm which is a much better GUI based scheduler and alarm clock. I guess cron is useful if you need to save on memory and CPU.
cron writes output to your mail file
On April 13th, 2009 Fahd Shariff (not verified) says:
A useful thing to note is that if you do not redirect the stdout and/or stderr of your commands, any generated output or errors will be mailed to you.
You can look at your mail file (/var/mail/user) to see the output/errors of your commands.
This is true.
On April 13th, 2009 Shawn Powers says:
Very true, and I meant to mention it. Thanks for pointing it out. Especially with that -v flag in rsync. :D
__________________________Shawn Powers is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal. You might find him chatting on the IRC channel, or Twitter
Personally I like using
On April 13th, 2009 Vadim (not verified) says:
Personally I like using gnome schedule (http://gnome-schedule.sourceforge.net) as a frontend for cron. Easier to go with if you don't know what are you doing.
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