Re: Idea re: Palms, gnome & event alarms

["Zot O'Connor" <zot zotconsulting com>]

"Scott D. Webster" wrote:
> 
> Jeremy Wise wrote:
> >
> > Is crond platform-independent enough to use, or is it linux only?  If it's
> > platform-indepenent, then we could have alarms exported to ~/.crontab,
> > couldn't we?  Just an idea...
> 
>         Cron and at are common to most unices, IIRC.
> 

Hmmm, yes crond is portable, but I've not seen a .crontab before....

Usually crontab -e edits a crontab file in a spool directory (somewhere
on the system).

Of course this may be a fesature I've not used.

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