On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 01:20, German Guillot wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 01:06:05 +1000, Stephen K�hn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Maybe I walked in late in the thread here - but I'm trying to NOW figure
> > out what y'all tryin to do - is it that you want cron to open a browser
> > for you for a specific URL and that's all?
> 
> Yep, that's it. I'm starting to feel a little embarrassed that the
> thread has run so long, this being OT and all. But basically that's
> the object of the exercise. I'm really just trying my hand out at
> scripting, and learning loads trying to solve this little problem.
> 
> If you have any ideas, they're most welcome!
> 
> Germ�n.

Ok...just for giggles and grins, I just created a small script to fire
up Galeon (/home/stephen/bin/start_galeon) ::

<snip>
#!/bin/bash

/usr/bin/galeon http://freshmeat.net

exit
</snip>

Fired up kcron as myself, added the task, saved the task; fired up kcron
again and forced a run; worked like a charm; was I missing something
originally in the thread?

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