Bob Williams wrote:

Is it installed or not, and if so, where might I find it?

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On Friday 20 November 2009 05:50:41 am Bob Williams wrote:

Both Yast and zypper tell me that kcron is installed, but 'which' can't find it, and it won't run :(

The first time I try to run it from the KDE menu, it asks for root's password, then displays a dialog saying

Command 'kcron -icon kcron -caption KCron' not found

Is it installed or not, and if so, where might I find it?

Bob

~> rpm -q kcron kcron-4.3.3-1.2.x86_64 ~> rpm -ql kcron /usr/lib64/kde4/kcm_cron.so /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kcron /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kcron/common /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kcron/index.cache.bz2 /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kcron/index.docbook /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kcron/kcron.png /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kcron/kcronstart.png /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kcron/newtask.png /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kcron/newvariable.png /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kcron/print.png /usr/share/doc/packages/kcron /usr/share/doc/packages/kcron/COPYING /usr/share/doc/packages/kcron/COPYING.DOC /usr/share/doc/packages/kcron/README /usr/share/kde4/services/kcm_cron.desktop Doesn't seem to be a binary in there. -- Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Friday 20 November 2009 15:45:55 Sebastian Gibb wrote:

Hello Bob,

kcron is now in systemsettings of KDE. systemsettings->Advanced->Task Scheduler

Kind regards,

Sebastian

Ah! Wonderful. I can setup my own cronjobs there, but not root's. Everything is greyed out when I click the System radio button. How frustrating. I suppose I'll have login to KDE as root just to get this little job done :( Or learn the CLI way of doing it ;) Thanks, Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.2, Kernel 2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop, KDE 4.3.3 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9200GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Friday 20 November 2009 17:38:00 John Andersen wrote:

On 11/20/2009 9:04 AM, Bob Williams wrote:

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On Friday 20 November 2009 15:45:55 Sebastian Gibb wrote:

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Hello Bob,

kcron is now in systemsettings of KDE. systemsettings->Advanced->Task Scheduler

Kind regards,

Sebastian

Ah! Wonderful. I can setup my own cronjobs there, but not root's. Everything is greyed out when I click the System radio button. How frustrating. I suppose I'll have login to KDE as root just to get this little job done :(

Or learn the CLI way of doing it ;)

Thanks,

Bob

I seem to remember a button that would prompt for a password in previous releases to allow modifying root tasks (such as scheduling backups etc which must be done as root, or some approximation there-of).

That's right, kcron was quite user friendly. I would have thought that choosing system cronjobs in this Task Scheduler thingy would automatically prompt you for root's password. After all, the Yast icon next to it does!

I've always maintained that sort of thing at the CLI until kcron came along and I could stop going blind counting asterisks and chanting minute hour day month day-of-week, and remembering it was man 5 crontab you wanted to look up instead of just man crontab.

Looks like I'll have to count astrisks, then ;) Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.2, Kernel 2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop, KDE 4.3.3 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9200GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org