{"id":1808,"date":"2013-11-27T21:48:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T08:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2013-11-27T21:51:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T08:51:59","slug":"gnome-schedule-a-gui-to-cron-or-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/?p=1808","title":{"rendered":"Gnome Schedule – a GUI to CRON or AT"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GnomeIf 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.<\/p>\n

At the moment I am running Fedora 18 and the tool of choice is “Gnome Schedule”. I have been using it for a while now and it seems to work just fine.<\/p>\n

To install you need to use the package “gnome-schedule”. The easiest way to install it is by running:<\/p>\n

yum install gnome-schedule<\/pre>\n
In my case I was using: gnome-schedule-2.1.5-3.fc18.noarch.<\/p>\n
You start Schedule from:<\/p>\n
Applications | System Tools | Scheduled tasks<\/p>\n
To create a recurring task start Scheduler and you should see something like this:<\/p>\n
\"Gnome<\/a>A task should look like the following:<\/p>\n
\"GnomeSchedulerV3\"<\/a>I use this tool all the time and it works great for me.<\/p>\n
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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[209,296,226,295,227,228],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fedora","category-linux","tag-cron","tag-fedora","tag-gnome-schedule","tag-linux","tag-rpm","tag-yum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1816,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/1816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}