Hi,

In my previous post I asked about a safe solution to send my pictures home from argentina, i created, as suggested a SFTP server which is working just fine, I can upload and download, local and external. Now there's just 1 more problem actually, my parents who will be staying home would like to see the pictures before i get home, which will be a year from august. Now since they both don't know how to work with gentoo linux or K3B for that matter, i was wondering if there is a way to do the following with CRON:

Burn the pictures on a DVD, each week. Taking only the newest, my dad will insert the dvd. Taking the newest is probably easy, just creating a new directory each time, I can even edit the cron from there because i can ssh in it as well.

Is there a way to get a cron too do such a thing?

Thanks in advance.

Sure there is. Though I'm not sure how it works with K3b which is a graphical front-end to a variety of command-line programs like cdrecord or growisofs or whatever it uses, as cron is command-line and doesn't move your mouse for you. Cron can do anything you can, as long as you can do it from the command line

I would suggest looking at the command-line DVD recording tools, they're probably easier to use for a task like this. You can use find in the cron command to locate the newest files (say files that are one week old or newer), create a list out of them and use that list along with a burning program to burn the files to a DVD.

Read man pages, or if you don't know exactly what you're looking for,