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Name: ckng
Date: October 10, 2006 at 01:03:58 Pacific
OS: unix
CPU/Ram: 638
Product: sun
Comment:

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



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Response Number 1
Name: James Boothe
Date: October 10, 2006 at 07:11:37 Pacific
Reply:

On some platforms:

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


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Response Number 2
Name: ckng
Date: October 10, 2006 at 18:46:54 Pacific
Reply:

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


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Response Number 3
Name: James Boothe
Date: October 11, 2006 at 07:50:56 Pacific
Reply:

You added one echo line to your cron job?

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


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Response Number 4
Name: ckng
Date: October 12, 2006 at 01:27:49 Pacific
Reply:

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


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