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Hi Guys
Can anyone tell me how to write a command that open2 mozila firefoc at 3 p.m. on monday using CentOs 5.

Hi,

best you read Bash Beginners Guide.

Scheduling commands is usually performed by means of crontabs (see man crontab for details) but they are intended for applications that don't require an active display to be executed. In your case better to use the at command to schedule the job, since it retains your current environment and is aware of the currently active display. This assumes that a X session is active at the time of the execution and that the assigned DISPLAY value is the same as that one assigned at the job submission time. See the manual page for at to learn about its usage and feel free to ask if in doubt.

Here is an old but still valid article about job scheduling in Linux: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4087. Hope this helps.

i think this should help you

#!/bin/bash
#########################################
######### open first firefox ###########
#########################################

firefox &

#########################################
######### wait for 2sec #################
#########################################

sleep 2s

########################################
########## start second instance########

firefox &

exit(0)



schedule this as a cron job to whatever day and time you need
is this what you are looking for ?

hope this helps you

You might want the -new-window option documented at https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Command_Line_Options

This won't work. If you schedule it, it'll run as a separate user (probably root), and even IF you do schedule it as the 'real' user you want, unless you give it a display variable (to tell it which X display to put the windows ON), it won't do anything except fail.

This link: http://www.codecoffee.com/tipsforlinux/articles/23.html explains more.

Or you can use the "--display :0" option for Firefox when launching from cron.

Do you want it to happen just once or every monday?

Thanks Guys for the replies.
I was somewhere away.
Regarding the last question by devnull10 every monday if possible.