From kde-linux Thu Jan 30 06:36:12 2003 From: Gene Heskett Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 06:36:12 +0000 To: kde-linux Subject: Re: [kde-linux] Calendar/scheduling question X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-linux&m=104390869305232 On Thursday 30 January 2003 01:01, David Reynolds wrote: >I have need of a program which can run repeating events, and yet > retain the ability to change individual events for time, > location, etc, without changing them all. This would include > deleting specific events if they get cancelled; all of this is > something both Outlook and Lotus Notes have. > >The Qtopia (Sharp Zaurus) Datebook doesn't have this ability; > neither does theKompany's calendar app, because it uses the same > underlying XML structure. I found that Korganizer will run on the > Zaurus, but it also seems to lack this ability in any functional > manner, unless I'm missing something (you can delete an > individual event, but not change the specifications of any of > them). Is a later version of KOrganizer than 3.0 able to do this, > or is it all a pipe dream on linux? Perhaps the OpenZaurus > project can do this, I haven't checked with them yet... > >Regards, >David That sounds like a job for cron, which has only been around in one form or another for what, 25 years? Try a 'crontab -e' as the user you want the event(s) to run under. You'll find you have just invoked a copy of vi, and the usual edit functions of vi are all there and waiting for your scheduleing pleasure. The command line syntax for cron (vixie-cron these days) is not well documented however without doing quite a bit of docs excavation. It was written back when every character was a penny's worth of memory or disk space. But it works, and works well. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.