On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 00:48, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> The key word in the above is "simple." Cron is a thousand times more > program than I need or care to take the time to learn. then meet cron's little brother at, already installed and running on your machine. a demo session: at 7:23 tomorrow at> DISPLAY=:0 xmessage "time to go" at> <EOT> job 2 at Tue Mar 14 07:23:00 2012 you said "at some human readable time" linux gave you an at> prompt you told it what to run (xmessage is the simplest "pop up a little message" utility that is probably already on your system. you told it to show this on your main desktop by specifying a $DISPLAY.) linux gave you another at> prompt in case you had more commands. you hit control-d to exit. linux told you it had reached the end of your transmission and when it was going to run your command. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
