Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4600 mails)

[Donald Henson <wepin@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 22:13, Bryce Hardy wrote:

> On Wednesday 21 January 2004 01:42 pm, Donald Henson wrote:
> 
> > > Took a quick look and didn't see anything there. If you're looking for a
> > > graphical program try kcron. I'm guessing you can run it as root by
> > > Alt-F2>>kdesu kcron. Try it and see.
> 
> > That looks like it might work. It actually came up without me being
> > root. Perhaps I have to be root in order to save changes. Anyway, thanks
> > for the pointer. I'll check it out.
> 
> I assumed that since you wanted a YAST program for cron that you were looking 
> to have cron jobs running as root for the whole system. You can run kcron as 
> a regular user also. That's how I wake up in the morning with a cron job to 
> play a song at 7 AM except on my two days off. But I have to make sure the 
> box is logged in as me overnight, or (again I'm guessing here, I'm no expert) 
> it won't go off.

I missed the kdesu part. (I use Gnome almost exclusively.) But your
first assumption was correct. I want to set up a cron job to run my
nightly backup so it would need to be set up as root. In the meantime,
I've run into a bigger problem. I can't figure out how to install
rdiff-backup.

Don Henson