The KCron Handbook

Morgan N. Sandquist <morgan@pipeline.com>

Developer: Gary Meyer
Reviewer: Lauri Watts

Revision 3.1.91 (2003-09-16)

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

KCron is an application that schedules programs to be run.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Using KCron

KCron Start Up

Scheduled Tasks
Environment Variables

Adding Scheduled Tasks

The Edit Task Dialog

Managing Scheduled Tasks

Cutting Scheduled Tasks
Copying Scheduled Tasks
Pasting Scheduled Tasks
Modifying Scheduled Tasks
Deleting Scheduled Tasks
Enabling/Disabling Scheduled Tasks
Running Scheduled Tasks

Adding Environment Variables

The Edit Variable dialog

Managing Environment Variables

Cutting Environment Variables
Copying Environment Variables
Pasting Environment Variables
Modifying Environment Variables
Deleting Environment Variables
Enabling/Disabling Environment Variables

Saving the crontab

Printing the crontab

3. Command Reference

The main KCron window

The File Menu
The Edit Menu
The Settings Menu
The Help Menu

4. Questions and Answers

5. Credits and License

A. Installation

How to obtain KCron
Requirements
Compilation and Installation