Cron job in Suse Linux
 

Guys, I need some help

I am trying to figure out how to set up a cronjob that displays a message on the screen in KDE at a certain time(I am using SUSE 9). Does anyone know what command I can use to display a message on the screen in KDE?

Your help is greately appreciated. Thanks in advance...

man wall ;-)

You can create a script containing

kdialog --msgbox "Some useful text..." ;

and point cron to that script.

I tried, the command kdialog is not recognized by SLES 9.

Kalarm will do this, it can do messages, sounds etc. etc. and the times etc are quite configurable.

It won't be in the shell though

I need to set up a cron job that just pops a graphical message on the screen in KDE saying for example HELLO. Now setting up a cron job I figured, but the command to pop some message on the screen I still can't figure out. Kalarm will work for this purpose, but I just really want to do it the other way....

There's your answer then. You can install it via Yast i beleieve.

on it's own gives a list of different switches.

If not you can use dialog (i was just playing around with it, pretty fun), mine seemed to open up in the shell i was running, you can prolly change that.

As chrism01 said, all you need is wall

For example, you could put this in root's crontab:

01 00 * * * echo -e "\a\nHey, it's past MIDNIGHT!\nTime for BED..." | /usr/bin/wall

And all users will all get a reminder at one minute past midnight.

HTH

awesome thanks guys that really helps!!!!!!