Cron Jobs setup

mindjet · 03-09-2006, 03:42 AM

Does anyone have any good advise for setting up cron jobs under Suse 10?

I have only ever set them up with the cPanel cron GUI, and i don't know how to do it otherwise.

Is there a GUI i can install? I tried searching for in YAST but i didn't see one.

Thanks

fragos · 03-09-2006, 08:54 PM

There's a GUI KCron that may make this process easier for you.

crouse · 03-09-2006, 09:26 PM

You might check out webmin, it has a cron job setup function, among MANY other things.

http://www.webmin.com/screens/edit_cron.gif

mindjet · 03-11-2006, 12:02 PM

Appreciate the help guys.

I couldn't see KCron in any of my menu's or my suse disks.
Is it an app i install from the KDE website?

If i have problems with that i'll give Webmin a go, it looks pretty cool (although it maybe has more functions than i need as i just want the task scheduler.

Thanks again

fragos · 03-11-2006, 01:46 PM

KCron is part of KDE and is a component of one of the KDE RPM's. You may already have it. Try "whereis kcron" in a kconsole window. It should report:

kcron: /opt/kde3/bin/kcron

You can add kcron to the menu or just execute it from the command line and the GUI window will pop up.

mindjet · 03-12-2006, 10:31 AM

This is what i tried but it appears its not there.

User@linux:~>whereis kcron
kcron:
User@linux:~>/opt/kde3/bin/kcron
bash: /opt/kde3/bin/kcron: No such file or directory

crouse · 03-12-2006, 12:47 PM

KCron can be found in the kdeadmin package on ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/

ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.4...-3.4.3.tar.bz2

The file you need depends upon the version of KDE your running.