On Sunday 11 February 2007 22:53, Dan wrote: > Anders Johansson wrote: > > On Sunday 11 February 2007 17:47, Dan wrote: > >> Ok, I have used cron on netware before so it should not be hard to > >> use. The only thing is, I cannot get it to run on my box or my server. > >> I get a message like this. > >> > >> cron: can't lock /var/run/cron.pid, otherpid may be 8086: Resource > >> temporarily unavailable > >> > >> Any ideas? > > > > Looks like you are trying to start it when it's already running. > > > > In SUSE it runs by default. All you have to do is edit your crontab, the > > changes will get picked up automatically > > Makes sense. Do you know if there is a gui to manage the cron jobs?
If you run KDE, you can install the kdeadmin3 package, then you will get under system->service configuration an option called kcron, which will allow you to schedule applications through a GUI -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
