Cron

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  • Scheduling a task in Open Media Vault

    I need to run some scripts every night to move some files around in OMV. I want something that simple and easy to maintain and more or less stock standard. There are probably many variations on how this could be done but this is how I chose to do it. Before we start it is… read more…

  • Gnome Schedule – a GUI to CRON or AT

    If you want a recurring job or task to run on a Unix/Linux box the standard has been CRON. To add extra jobs or tasks can be done from a command line but I tend to be a lazy fellow so I look for a GUI front end that makes my life easier. At the… read more…

    Gnome Schedule – a GUI to CRON or AT

  • Cron job to check and if needed restart MythBackend

    I am running MythTV 0.25 on Fedora 16. The problem I have is that sometimes the backend stops responding for reasons I have not figured out. Until I resolve the problem I want a mechanism that will restart the backend when it stops responding. The solution I took was to create shell script that would… read more…

    Cron job to check and if needed restart MythBackend