On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 03:25:10 +1000, Stephen K�hn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now I'm led to wonder, are you using kcron to setup the cron job - and > is the user YOU or root or system? I'm not using kcron - I don't even have it. In my home dir I have a text file called, appropriately (or confusingly) "crontab". I edit this by hand when I want to make changes, and then I run: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ger]$ crontab crontab et voil�, the file /var/spool/cron/ger is updated and cron does as instructed, as long as you don't require it to use the X server. It's the user's crontab, but I've tried with with root's with the same result (ie, none). For my little problem I've found a solution now. The script that cron runs checks my intended webpage and if it has changed since last time runs "cat status.1 > status", otherwise it runs "cat status.0 > status" (the content of status.1 is a 1, etc). In the meantime I have a background process reading the file "status" at the same intervals as cron. If it finds a 0, it does nothing. If it finds a 1 it opens a Galeon tab. Solved! I still don't know how you managed to make cron start Galeon directly, though. I'm using mdk10 OE, standard out of the box. I haven't messed with any configurations, I don't know enough for that yet. I guess you've got a few things tweaked there, haven't you? Oh man, so much to learn, so little time! Germ�n.
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