hi,
i have a program which should run at every 1.30pm daily and after the program have finish running, it should put a message on the screen.

i have use crontab but it will not put a message on the screen after finish running.

does anyone have any solutions on how may i put a message on the screen after my program finish running at crontab.

Thank you

thanks

On some platforms:

echo 'Cron job has finished' > /dev/console

hi,
i do as u said,
but in the mail its says [unexpected end of line. this entry has been ignored]

what should i do with this problem???

thanks

You added one echo line to your cron job?

Please copy/paste that one line to this thread. Thanks.

hi,
is there anyway i can force a output of a command to the monitor.
for example

Code:
banner hello > /dev/console

it will show a hello in the console, so how do i make it to appear on the monitor screen when the console is been minmize.

thanks