Automating tasks
by alex4buba from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5SV5E)
Hello my teachers, this time I feel I can maybe contribute something instead of asking for help.
I have just replaced my desktop (from Intel NUC, to a HP Elitedesk 800 G6).
With my old pc, I used the Task Scheduler to automate my daily backup, it used to work, almost each day, but at times it didn't, or it was firing up at strange times, NOT at what I set it up.
This is executed through a cron job.
When I installed again KDE Plasma 5.23.3 on this new machine, the function of Task Scheduler was missing, it showed up again after 3 days, setup the same cron job, but it never worked, tried to check the logs, nothing.
Then, I bumped into this app, it works each day, at the set time, creates an entry into a text file that I setup, just magic... It is called KAlarm.
Hope someone here can find use in it.
Cheers
Alex
I have just replaced my desktop (from Intel NUC, to a HP Elitedesk 800 G6).
With my old pc, I used the Task Scheduler to automate my daily backup, it used to work, almost each day, but at times it didn't, or it was firing up at strange times, NOT at what I set it up.
This is executed through a cron job.
When I installed again KDE Plasma 5.23.3 on this new machine, the function of Task Scheduler was missing, it showed up again after 3 days, setup the same cron job, but it never worked, tried to check the logs, nothing.
Then, I bumped into this app, it works each day, at the set time, creates an entry into a text file that I setup, just magic... It is called KAlarm.
Hope someone here can find use in it.
Cheers
Alex