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[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 11 February 2007 22:53, Dan wrote:
> Anders Johansson wrote:
> > On Sunday 11 February 2007 17:47, Dan wrote:
> >> Ok,  I have used cron on netware before so it should not be hard to
> >> use.  The only thing is, I cannot get it to run on my box or my server.
> >> I get a message like this.
> >>
> >> cron: can't lock /var/run/cron.pid, otherpid may be 8086: Resource
> >> temporarily unavailable
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >
> > Looks like you are trying to start it when it's already running.
> >
> > In SUSE it runs by default. All you have to do is edit your crontab, the
> > changes will get picked up automatically
>
> Makes sense.  Do you know if there is a gui to manage the cron jobs?

If you run KDE, you can install the kdeadmin3 package, then you will get under

system->service configuration

an option called kcron, which will allow you to schedule applications through 
a GUI

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