Re: Creating a Cron entry to start a program at a particular time?

[Kenneth Stephen]

On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, John Aldrich wrote:

> How do I create a CRON entry to, for example, start XMMS at
> 0600 and play a particular MP3 file (or KMP3 to do the
> same)???
> What I'm wanting is to do something similar to what I had
> under Windows 98's Task Scheduler -- use my computer as an
> alarm clock.
> Thanks...
> 

John,

        The formant of crontab may differ from distro to distro, so you
would do well to do a 'man 5 crontab' on your system. The actual command
to specify cron settings is 'crontab -e'.

Regards,
Kenneth