kcron confusion - SOLVED

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I did:

sudo apt-get install kcron

Great.

man kcron

Fantastic.

kcron &
bash: kcron: command not found

[Rog131]

Re: kcron confusion

There is not a man page for the Kcron, maybe later ?

Kcron - Graphical front-end for the Cron.

K > System Settings > Advanced tab > Task Scheduler (KCron)

With the KDE 4.2 (beta-1) there is a working Help/Manual button - Does it work with the KDE 4.1 ?:

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Re: kcron confusion

There is not a man page for the Kcron

Here is what I get on KDE 4.1.2:

KCRON(8) KCRON(8)

NAME
kcron — Views and sets cron daemon configuration.

SYNOPSIS
kcron [--help] [--help-kde] [--help-qt] [--version -v] [--license] [--author] [--caption <cap‐
tion>] [--icon <icon>] [--miniicon <icon>] [--dcopserver <server>] [--nocrashhandler] [--wait‐
forwm] [--style <style>] [--geometry <geometry>] [--display <display>] [--session <sessionid>]
[--cmap] [--ncols <columns>] [--nograb] [--dograb] [--sync] [--font --fn <fontname>] [--back‐
ground --bg <colour>] [--button --btn <colour>] [--name <name>] [--title <title>] [--visual True‐
Color] [--inputstyle <style>] [--im <server>] [--noxim]

DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the kcron command.

kcron is an application to configure cron services.

OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command ...

Thanks for your piccie, Rog, I found that and I am very, very pleased about it

However, my confusion remains (sort of). Is Kcron now totally incorporated into System Settings and not a free standing app any more? That would explain it, but the fact that you can install it, there appears to be a man page but the app is not there is still a bit of a head**ck for me

[Rog131]

Re: kcron confusion

oops i was typing:

man kron

No manual entry for kron

Is Kcron now totally incorporated into System Settings and not a free standing app any more?

As i understand this: the System Settings is a switchboard for the kde modules. You could start Kcron with the command:

kcmshell4 kcm_cron

The rest of the modules:

kcmshell4 --list

man kcmshell

NAME
kcmshell - tool to start single KDE control modules

SYNOPSIS
kcmshell [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [options] module

Options:
--list List all possible modules

You could add Kcron to the K menu...

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Re: kcron confusion

Thanks very much Rog! At least I now know how to call things up from the command line.

Once I have time I will study kcmshell(4) - promise