On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Kenneth Stephen wrote:
> 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'.
crontab -e is ok if one is a 'vi' fanatic, however more then half of
the linux users dont even know what vi is, half of the half that dont
know vi wont know howto edit there crontab, my way is to export an
editor in /rotot/profile or the likes.
export EDITOR=/usr/bin/joe
Or of course your editor of choise.
> Regards,
> Kenneth
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Regards Richard
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