Re: cron and kmessage

2006-06-25 Thread Derek Martin
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 07:51:58PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > My actual problem is that I want to display a message at specific > times (every 0th, 30th minute of hour) on the user's screen. I > thought I can do this with cron and kmessage. [snip] > But then it doe

Re: cron and kmessage

2006-06-24 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-06-24, 19:51:58 (-0400) skrifaði Kamaraju Kusumanchi: > My actual problem is that I want to display a message at specific times > (every > 0th, 30th minute of hour) on the user's screen. I thought I can do this with > cron and kmessage. > > I edited the cro

cron and kmessage

2006-06-24 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
My actual problem is that I want to display a message at specific times (every 0th, 30th minute of hour) on the user's screen. I thought I can do this with cron and kmessage. I edited the crontab entry as 0,30 * * * *kdialog --msgbox "test message" But then it does not dis