way to schedule a recording from a webcam on a local machine. for example I want my webcam to start recording video at say 7am and stop at 8am.
The webcam is working and all is set properly, I have wxcam which has a feature to record but I found nothing about scheduling for auto start and auto stop. I was thinking using 'at' but I found nothing about command line for wxcam.
I want to schedule a Java program to run at a certain time, which will open a GUI progress monitor while it runs, and then terminate when it's done. I can execute it fine from the command line, but I it doesn't seem to work when I schedule it with crontab. In fact, I can't make any gui by scheduling it, not even something like gedit or firefox.
I know it's pretty rare that someone would want to do this, but is there any way to schedule a GUI app?
now a day its difficult to wake up at 2 o'clock and on the pc starting downloading is there any way to schedule deluge program start at 2 o'clock
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crontab -e
0 !9-17 * * * /path/to/script/file
I guess other way is
0 17-8 * * * /path/to/script/file
Does anyone know how to schedule a Fedora box to automaticly shutdown and then resume later at a specific time?Shutting down is easy, but I have found nothing about the restarting part.
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Are there any tips/tutorials for sending out scheduled email?
My main use case for this would be sending out a Tweet and an email at the same time.
I just did my first rsnapshot backup of my /home/ to an external harddisk. When I am not at my computer for a couple of hours, I always shut it down. Therefore, there are no predictable hours of the day where I know that my computer is running. So, how should I schedule/crontab my rotating rsnapshot backups?
Is anyone using rsnapshot in combination with a schedule which is not based on exact times but rather on the time the computer is running?
I'm running LXDE in Ubuntu 10.04, and NTP won't work properly for me. I've found that this command in a terminal will set my clock properly:
Code:
sudo ntpdate time.nrc.ca
But I have to do that manually.
How would I go about creating a shell script with that command and then scheduling it to run once a day?
Well I'm totally frustrated. I have been trying to figure out how to use anacron (schedule tasks). I Googled,Binged,Yahooed, and manpaged.I cannot find how to, at least, start anacron. To use 'cron' I use crontab -e. What do i use to start anacron?.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI am setting crontab to run a script every minute irrespective of the current hour's value:
Code:
[root@localhost bin]# ls
sec.php showTime.sh
[root@localhost bin]# crontab -l
1 * * * * /root/bin/showTime.sh
[root@localhost bin]#
But it is not working. Does the line mean: "Run this script every day at hour:01"?
my problem is that an application which I want to start at the startup is creating some problems if it is started at the startup. But if it is started after a few seconds or say a minute of the startup, it doesn't cause any trouble.
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-) Telnet to a remote node
-) Issue a command
-) Capture the output in a log
-) Logout from Telnet
-) Wait for a prescribed time interval
-) Then redo , but append the subsequent output in just on file
know which options do we have to write such a task?
Is it possible to schedule a process in the foreground? Lets say a cron schedule to be ran at 9:00. I would like to come back at 9:30, see how the process is running, and being able to interact with it... lets say kill it, or whatever. Is it possible? (Its not necessary to use cron, but it must be in Command Line)
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI have configured Nagios in my CentOS machine and is able to receive notificatons/alerts related to hosts and services at defined interval. Now I would like to receive combined reports (for daily downtime, availability of hosts/services) for all hosts and services in one go in the morning. Is there any configuration or setting on Nagios Splash screen.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have been messing with rsync but I don't see any kinda time limitations that will start the sync at 1am and stop it at 5am and resume the next night. Im dealing with some rather big files so the program will need to be able to resume an upload. I would like to use the ssh protocol to send the files as it's encrypted. (something like scp is fine too) but I can't see how to get them to stop at 5am (I thought of using a cron job but then how do I stop it at 5 without corrupting the partially uploaded file...)Both OS's are linux/unix based (Debian/Max OS X with ports)
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View 1 Replies View Relatedi am using ubuntu 9.10.i connect to net through the gnome netwok manager via a mobile broadband connection. can anyone suggest any commands or tools with the help of which i can disconnect the net at a preset time or after a fixed interval has expired. i know that by executing "poff" command in terminal i can disconnect the connection, but i want the same to happen automatically without any kind of user intervention at a scheduled time.
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View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to use cron to schedule a script I wrote.in the terminal I'm typing sudo cronbut i get this message back.cron: can't lock /var/run/crond.pid, otherpid may be 3332: Resource temporarily unavailablewhat's going on here? how can I schedule my script to run?
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View 5 Replies View RelatedI have added "@daily shutdown -r now" to my root crontab (sudo crontab -e) but it does not seem to ever run. When I look at the chron log using webmin I can see that it tried to run and there was no error. Also when I run it manually using webmin the system reboots fine. I also tried using reboot -f in the crontab instead and that also worked when manually run but not on schedule. The reason I know it didn't run is on webmin it shows the system uptime. This is the output of the chron log:
Code:
Jun 26 21:17:02 GrantLaptop CRON[3467]: (root) CMD (cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Jun 26 22:17:01 GrantLaptop CRON[3873]: (root) CMD (cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Jun 26 23:17:01 GrantLaptop CRON[4269]: (root) CMD (cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Jun 27 00:00:01 GrantLaptop CRON[4530]: (root) CMD (shutdown -r now)
Jun 27 00:17:01 GrantLaptop CRON[4630]: (root) CMD (cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Jun 27 01:17:01 GrantLaptop CRON[5005]: (root) CMD (cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Jun 27 02:17:01 GrantLaptop CRON[5416]: (root) CMD (cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
My Internet service provider here in South Africa is Vodacom (Vodafone) and I pay a huge amount of cash for 2.5Gigs per month. They do, however, give me the same amount of data for free that I can make use of between midnight and 5.00am.For this reason, I would like to be able to schedule my update manager to download all updates at, say, 10 past midnight.Can any of you guys out there offer any suggestions or is there a way that we can make a request for the Ubuntu developers to include this in "Update Manager"?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to make an old Dell Latitude D505 running OpenSuse 11.3 LXDE download torrents at night between 2 and 6 AM (when I have free bandwidth), but I'm failing at a couple very basic things. The solution is probably very simple, but I can't find it.First: How can I schedule Transmission to start every day at 2AM? I tried with Crontab (using VCron), but I think I'm using the wrong command. When I type "transmission" in a terminal it launches transmission, but when I make a crontab entry with "transmission", nothing happens. Do I need to type the full path to the transmission executable? If so, how can I find that? Or is the problem more likely to have something to do with permissions?Second: Is it possible to schedule hibernation? If so, what command should I use?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI just want to know the distribution which is supported for longer time ex: Ubuntu will be supported for 18 months fedora for 14months. I repeat,I want a distribution which is stable,which I can leave without upgrading to next version for atleast 2 or 3 years. tell me other than Ubuntu LTS version
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