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Originally posted by mooreted
Why on earth would you want to type out all this:
And let's all not forget cron. If you want to automate your backup to CD to run at 3:00a.m. while you are in bed asleep, Putting the commands in a script and handing it to cron sure makes life easier!
Cron is cool. The control file can be a little challenging to learn, but once you have the hang of it, you can point it to any script at any time in any intervals.
i keep getting this error when trying to compile: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.1 (20021021)) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!
For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log
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