I'm not looking for software that has any relation to CPU scheduling, but something more for personal use. I don't want to use Evolution, because I'm not looking to keep track of weekly repeating tasks on an annual calendar. It's not for business use, but something more applied to home chores or weekly maintenance of my car. Has anyone come across anything close to this? I'm out of ideas on where to search.
View 5 RepliesI 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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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 was wondering if there was some calendar/planner/schedule program for Ubuntu so that I could input all my class HW/lecture/exam schedules for the semester and be able to keep track of whats due and whats going on? I know I could use Gmail's calendar, but I don't know if I will always have internet and I feel like a stand-alone program would be better.
View 4 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"?
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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
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.
Schedule disk scan on boot Ubuntu. How do I do this?
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View 3 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to schedule a task to run on the 1st Saturday of every month? I'm not sure if what I have here will run. I am running Ubuntu 10.04 Server x64
What I have right now is:
# m h dom mon dow command
00 00 1 * Sat /storage/scripts/monthly-script.sh
This looks to me that it will only run at midnight if a Saturday is the first of the month. But if that's the case then that's not quite what I'm looking for...
I am running Ubuntu 10.4 and I am unable to turn on Personal file sharing. The error I get is that required files are not installed. I need to know how to correct this.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have changed to ubuntu a few months ago from windows, where I used to have a mediawiki set up on a local server. This wiki was used for notes, archiving, document management, file storage, calendaring, almost everything that most people do with a normal directory tree on their drives.
Unfortunately, I have not yet managed to install a local media wiki on my ubuntu 10.04 LTS system so far. I have tried it once and messed up the php-stuff so badly that I had to reinstall the entire system in order for it to work in a acceptable speed.
how to set up a current version mediawiki (or an older version, if that's the only chance) as a local wiki in 10.04 LTS? There is no network access to the wiki, just local access using a firefox browser on the machine where it is installed.
I use to auto start Firefox and Thunderbird. I would like to add others but using a delay. For instance, Firefox starts with 10 seconds of delay, Thunderbird with 30 second an so on. I tried to make a script using "sleep" command, but I am not expert and nothing worked. So, do you know if already exist an application that does this if not, are you able to show me how to create the script?
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