Embarrassing "systemsettings" question...

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Sun Jan 3 14:12:56 GMT 2010


On Sunday 03 January 2010 13:45:49 you wrote:
> On Sunday 03 January 2010, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Sunday 03 January 2010 12:58:10 Colin J Thomson - G6AVK wrote:
> > > On Friday 01 January 2010 11:27:09 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > On Friday 01 January 2010 02:46:48 Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> > > > > Hello Everyone
> > > > > It is an embarrassing question because:
> > > > > 1. I read somewhere that the functionality of "KCron" from
> > > > > KDE3.5.* was located somewhere in "systemsettings"
> > > > > 2. Worse, I have used it from that location on a few occasions,
> > > > > and now I can't find it any more...
> > > > >
> > > > > This came up because of an almost certainly NON-KDE issue: the
> > > > > /var/spool/crontab file that contained the commands that I use to
> > > > > back up my system every day have disappeared...  I think THAT
> > > > > would be a question for the Fedora list, though :)
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyway, just refresh my memory: where is the functionality of
> > > > > KCron now located.  And, if it has really disappeared from my
> > > > > system for some reason, why, and has it disappeared for anyone
> > > > > else?
> > > >
> > > > There has been much talk about reorganising because people thought
> > > > that the layout was unfriendly.  It seems to me that some items
> > > > have been lost in the shift.  I agree that kcron seems to have gone
> > > > (in 4.3.85), and so does user management, both of which are very
> > > > important to me. I'll try to ask around and find out what's
> > > > happening.
> > >
> > > Running F12/KDE-4.4Beta2 here, for Kcron how about:
> > >
> > > System Settings >  Advanced > (System Section)Task Scheduler
> >
> > Well, that's where it used to be, but now I've only got Login Manager
> >  and Samba in that section.  Weird.
> >
> > kdebase-workspace-4.3.85-1.fc12.i686
> 
> I take it you have kdeadmin installed?
> 
> kdeadmin-7:4.3.85.1.fc12.i686 (3.2 M) - @kde-unstable :
> 
> The kdeadmin package includes administrative tools including:
> * kcron: systemsettings module for the cron task scheduler
> * knetworkconf: systemsettings module for network settings
> * ksystemlog: system log viewer
> * kuser: user manager
> 
Duh!  How could I miss that?  I *always* install kdeadmin - but I hadn't done.  
Now the scheduler is back in systemsettings.  The other thing I'd been seeking 
was kuser, so that's working too from krunner, now - although wasn't there a 
module in systemsettings for this, at one point?

Thanks.  I needed beating around the head for missing that :-D

Anne
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