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11-13-2008, 11:42 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2008
Posts: 4
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Looking for a GUI to manage startup jobs
I have a job that is cron to run every hour. I now need it to run when the system starts. Can anyone tell me how to do this? Also is there a GUI app that will let me do this from X?
Thanks
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11-13-2008, 12:29 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2007
Location: Brighton, UK
Distribution: Ubuntu Hardy, Ubuntu Jaunty, Eeebuntu, Debian, SME-Server
Posts: 1,213
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Please fill in your distro, so people can respond with suggestions...
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11-13-2008, 01:06 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Seattle
Distribution: Debian, Fedora, CentOS, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris
Posts: 138
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Read 'man crontab' or search for crontab tutorials.
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11-13-2008, 03:26 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2008
Posts: 4
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What is a distro?
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11-13-2008, 03:36 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2007
Location: Brighton, UK
Distribution: Ubuntu Hardy, Ubuntu Jaunty, Eeebuntu, Debian, SME-Server
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distro = distribution, that is, fedora, ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, Mandriva and so on....
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11-13-2008, 07:18 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Sydney
Distribution: Rocky 9.x
Posts: 18,441
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Also include the version number.
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11-13-2008, 07:22 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2006
Location: Kolkata, India
Distribution: Debian 64-bit GNU/Linux, Kubuntu64, Fedora QA, Slackware,
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With kde-4.1 you can do that from system settings too
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