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24 May
2003
24 May
'03
14:29
I'd like to set up a statement in crontab that will open a terminal and display a message. I've been using cron for backups and log rotation and have the format down, I'm just unable to figure out how to open a window from within cron. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for all pearls of wisdom.