[WBEL-users] Using cron for auto tasks

[Ewan Mac Mahon]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:46:18PM +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> There are some things that I want to run automatically, like my email
> program starting at least an hour before I get up and then downloading
> my email ready for me. So I have made the following cron file which is
> in /etc/cron.daily

> MAILTO="" LANG="en_UK" 0 0 7 * * /usr/local/bin/sylpheed

Aside from everything else would I be right in thinking that sylpheed is a
GUI application? If so it probably won't be happy running from cron at
all.

Ewan