Automating Program Start / Stop

[Tez]

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Art Alexion wrote:

> On Thursday 11 May 2006 23:19, Dana J. Laude wrote:
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>> How would you automatically start a program upon login to KDE and
>> then stop and restart it every 4 hours?
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>> I assume I can do this via cron, but I've never had to do the
>> shutdown / kill part before.
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> Have you tried kcron? Very easy to configure.
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You could put a simple script in ~/.kde/Autostart
like:

#Sample Script
/path/to/app & pid=$!
sleep 14400
kill $pid
$0

That would start & stop a app for you.
(if my math is right 14400 seconds is 4 hours)

Terence Simpson
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