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I am college senior very new to Linux and I was hoping that someone could share a way for telling the OS to run a java program at a certain ...
  1. 12-19-2007 #1
    robertmeza
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    Auto Run a program

    I am college senior very new to Linux and I was hoping that someone could share a way for telling the OS to run a java program at a certain time every day. Aslo I need to send in the date and time as parameters to the program. Can anyone offer the mechanism for doing this? Thanks for helping out a newb
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  2. 12-20-2007 #2
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    Welcome to the forums!

    A cron job might work for you:

    crontab MAN Page
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    hugortega
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    Hi,

    If you feel more confortable with GUI's, try kcron or gcrontab (installable normally from your distro package system)

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