HOW TO: A CRON GUI - gnome-schedule :

[GrammatonCleric]

HOW TO: A CRON GUI - gnome-schedule :

Download and install:


sudo apt-get install python-gtk2
sudo apt-get install python-gtk2-dev


Download gnome-shedule source tarball:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gnome-schedule/gnome-schedule-0.9.0.tar.bz2?download

(http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnome-schedule/gnome-schedule-0.9.0.tar.bz2)
Extract the tared file:



tar jxvf gnome-schedule-0.9.0.tar.bz2


Change into the extracted directory:



cd gnome-schedule-0.9.0


Configure the source:



./configure


Compile the source:



make


Install the compiled source:



sudo make install

From a terminal command line or from a launcher run...



gnome-schedule


NOTE: to use gnome-schedule to schedule jobs as root from the command line run....



sudo gnome-schedule


GC

[shof2k]

Any chance of a screenshot?

[Hyun]

source (https://gaute.vetsj.com/~drzap/gnome-schedule/screenshots/2005-07-27-150249_1280x1024_scrot.png) ;)

[artnay]

Instead of making "sudo make install", you should build a .deb file using checkinstall. It's the easiest way to build a package. Just do "sudo apt-get install checkinstall" before anything else and replace "sudo make install" with "sudo checkinstall". That way it's easy to remove a program, you don't need make clean.

Please write HOWTOs to use checkinstall instead of make install! Mods, edit when needed! ;)

For creating packages with dependencies, you should check http://www.us.debian.org/devel/

[Spudgun]

Cheers, worked nicely apart from I had to install an XML parsing module for Perl.

[Sionide]

Cheers, worked nicely apart from I had to install an XML parsing module for Perl.

Me too,

for newbies;

type

cpan

then

install XML::Parser

then

exit

then try ./configure again.

OR - do the checkinstall thing, that stuff is quality - I wish I'd remembered to do it BEFORE I compiled it the normal way. :mad:

Anyway, great HOWTO - perhaps someone can see about getting this included in Dapper??

[ow50]

Me too,

for newbies;

type

cpan
...
Rather
sudo apt-get install libxml-parser-perl

[phyzome]

I used the checkinstall to build a .deb package, and uploaded it to my server. I'm not vouching for it, but here's the deb package for gnome-scheduler (http://brainonfire.net/blog/main/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/gnome-schedule-0.9.0_0.9.0-1_i386.deb) (updated URL).

[altonbr]

It's now in the repositories for 7.04.

[abhiroopb]

Where is the "default UNIX mailbox" where all the outputs are sent? Can I change this? ideally I would like outputs to come to my home folder as log files (if possible).

[altonbr]

Where is the "default UNIX mailbox" where all the outputs are sent? Can I change this? ideally I would like outputs to come to my home folder as log files (if possible).

Are you running one-liners or a script?

You can write to a file, either by erasing each time (>) or appending each time (>>).

Example after being ran three times:

ls > dir_listing.log
foo/ bar/
ls >> dir_listing.log
foo/ bar/
foo/ bar/
foo/ bar/

If you want to make a new log every single time it runs, you'll need to write a script to make a variable such as:
THEDATE=`date '+%Y%m%d-%s'` # 20071010-1192044000
so you then can append a Unix timestamp to your log like so:
ls > dir_listing-$THEDATE.log # dir_listing-20071010-1192044000.log

Does that make sense?

[abhiroopb]

I'm a little confused. Basically I have a bash script, for rsync backup, and it creates its own log file. So it isn't so essential that a log file is created, however, I was just wondering where this magical "UNIX mailbox" was. I am using gnome-schedule 1.0.1 (from repo) and when I create a cron job underneat there is an option for "Output", which if I scroll over says it saves the outputs in the defualt UNIX mailbox.

[altonbr]

I'm a little confused. Basically I have a bash script, for rsync backup, and it creates its own log file. So it isn't so essential that a log file is created, however, I was just wondering where this magical "UNIX mailbox" was. I am using gnome-schedule 1.0.1 (from repo) and when I create a cron job underneat there is an option for "Output", which if I scroll over says it saves the outputs in the defualt UNIX mailbox.

The default UNIX mailbox can be accessed by typing 'mail' in the command line I believe. It is a little archic nowadays, but still used by system administrators. Instead of letting it create a log to UNIX mail, tell it to create a log at /home/<your username/logs/my_log.log

[abhiroopb]

The default UNIX mailbox can be accessed by typing 'mail' in the command line I believe. It is a little archic nowadays, but still used by system administrators. Instead of letting it create a log to UNIX mail, tell it to create a log at /home/<your username/logs/my_log.log

How do I tell it to create a log in the home directory? Would that be using your command? If so, like I said I don't want to use such a complicated method.

[abhiroopb]

I think I see the problem: according to this https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=5a5b14cf0802081037s2dcd398fk c0ed3e0a2e983daa%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=gnome-schedule-devel gnome schedule creates its logfile in .gnome/gnome-schedule SINCE version 1.1.0. The version in the repo is 1.0.1 (a bit old). However, when I try to compile the latest version I get the following error:


abhiroop@Vanimo:~/MyDownloads/gnome-schedule-2.0.2$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for python... /usr/bin/python
checking for python version... 2.5
checking for python platform... linux2
checking for python script directory... ${prefix}/lib/python2.5/site-packages
checking for python extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.5/site-packages
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for PYGTK... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking PYTHONPATH env variable for PyGTK... /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages
checking for gtk.glade... found
checking for GNOMEPYTHON... configure: error: Package requirements (gnome-python-2.0 >= 2.12.0) were not met:

No package 'gnome-python-2.0' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GNOMEPYTHON_CFLAGS
and GNOMEPYTHON_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.


Any thoughts?