[Sussex] Regular scheduled jobs?

[Brendan Whelan]

John,

We use cron to execute a shell script which in turn runs a PHP program to
convert file from RTF to PS and then print them
[root at hespera ~]# export EDITOR=kedit                or whichever editor you
prefer
[root at hespera ~]# crontab -e

Place instructions in the cron table - in you case you will want to change
the time from once/minute to once/whatever:

SHELL=/bin/bash

PATH=/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sb
in:/bin:/ usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin

HOME=/

LOGNAME=""

MAILTO=""

0-59 * * * * bash /home/yourpath/your_cron.sh

Exit from the editor and check the crontab entry.

[root at hespera ~]# crontab -l

I hope that this helps.

Brendan

----- Original Message -----
From: "John D." <john at johnsemail.eclipse.co.uk>
To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 9:43 PM
Subject: [Sussex] Regular scheduled jobs?


> Hi list,
>
> setting of regular scheduled jobs, is that "cron" ? Or am I thinking of
> something else?
>
> Whichever it is, could someone point me at any decent links about how to
> use this facility (gentoo???) as I'm having snags with inkjet printer
> cartridges that dry up/block (both original HP and "remanufactured"),
> and would like to set things up so that the printer will kick out a test
> print once a week or so (maybe more often???).
>
> Or suggestions about how I could/should accomplish this ?
>
> regards
>
> John D.
>
> p.s. Oh and how would I establish exactly what the default settings for
> the printer (an HP deskjet 840c) should be, because at the moment, the
> defaults seem to be printing images (from .jpg files) that look like
> those "dotty" pictures previously seen in 1980's newpapers (i.e. crap
> quality)?
>
>
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