>On Thursday 14 Apr 2005 16:53, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
I guess this means I need to be connected to the web for this update? I am on dial-up which is my phone line ... so time needs to be when I am likely to be online. I ask this because I am a nurse and therefore a shiftworker with irregular times for being on-line.
That does make it difficult. I'd forget cron in that case. Make your script just as you would for cron, but put a link to it on your desktop. Just hit that link on your first connection of the week, or whatever seems best for you. You can always use korganizer to set up reminders based on your shift pattern. HTH
Anne
One other way would be to have the script run when ever you connect. Basicly, you would put the script in /etc/ppp/if-up.d so it would run when ever you bring up the ppp interface. (Use dialup.) I am not sure if it would be run if you are using kppp to connect, but I can find out if you are using it, and the idea interests you.
Now, as far as the scanning drives, you may want to put the script that does that in /etc/cron.daily, instead of using "crontab -e" to have it run as a root cron job. This is where the daily system cron jobs are run from. The files in this directory that are executable are run once a day, usualy at 04:02 am local time.
Mikkel --
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