Paul wrote:
>
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Joseph Red wrote:
>
> >I think what you want to do is setup a cron job. Do a search for "how do I
> >set up a cron job" & you should get some helpful info.
>
> >> Can someone please give me clear detailed instructions (other than
> >> cryptic man page references) on how to write a
> >> script file, which opens netscape at certain times during the day?
>
> I am not even sure if it is possible to kick a netscape to a running
> Xwindow system from inside cron. Let;s try it...
>
> (And yes, folks, it is Xwindow. Not Xwindows. ;-)
>
> Why do you need this? Note that some versions of netscape do not like it
> when you run several instances next to each other (pre 4.7x for instance)
> from command lines.
>
> Okay, I checked it by adding
>
> 01 20 * * * netscape
>
> to my crontable. It did not work. I could see it tried to do something,
> but it could not connect to the Xserver. So cron is not the way to go.
> (Cron sent me a mail that it could not open the display, too.)
>
> You could think of a script that checks date and or time, which runs in a
> minimized xterm, and runs netscape at certain moments.
>
> I would not know exactly how to set that up all that fast. Perhaps you can
> find some useful tool at www.linuxapps.com or www.freshmeat.net
>
> Good luck!
>
> Paul
>
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Give you a clue :-)
