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Questions tagged [schedule]

The schedule tag should be used for questions about scheduling events, like running applications or processes on a planned time.

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Conveniently schedule a command to run later?

What's a simple way to run a command, say, 8 hours from now? I can think of this way: nohup bash -c "sleep 28800 ; ./mycommand.sh" & Is there a more "proper" way?
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Scheduling StartUp and ShutDown

I use Torrents often, so I need to know how to make my computer start up and shut down automatically, Wi-Fi is switched on at six in the morning in my hotel and switched off at two AM. (I am able to schedule torrents, that's not a problem), I don't…
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Suspend and wake PC at certain time

I want my PC to sleep at 04:58 and wake at 05:15, every day. How do I do that?
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Scheduling a reboot on a remotely located Ubuntu server

I work on a ubuntu server located in a place where I don't usually go. I use ssh over openvpn to access it. The machine has multiple wired interfaces, many static routes and multiple default gateways to WAN. I frequently change interface adresses…
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Scheduled download by transmission during nightly hours? (downloading just at a specified period of a day)

I want to limit transmission to work at 02:00 AM untill 08:00. How?
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Cant stop FortiClient vpn from starting on startup

I'm using FortiClient for VPN purposes only and don't need it running any other time. I can't get disabled from starting on startup. How to disable auto-launching of FortClient on startup?
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How do I schedule waking up from hibernation?

Is it possible to wake up Ubuntu from hibernation at a predefined time? It should not be WOL, but rather Ubuntu waking itself up. For example, it should do what the app WakeupOnStandBy does on MS Windows.
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Manually run an Anacron Job

I have performed a minimal installation of UBUNTU. I trying to configure my system to take automatic backups using rsnapshot. I have successfully configured my rsnapshot.conf file and by running rsnapshot weekly command in terminal I am getting the…
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How to run a program with SCHED_RR policy from command line?

By default programs run with Time Sharing (TS policy) on Linux. How to run a program with SCHED_RR policy on Linux from command line? Thanks for giving information about chrt(1) command. I have used the command to run Firefox with RR policy, but as…
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I can't install gnome schedule on Ubuntu 16.04

I would like to install gnome-schedule in my recent Ubuntu 16.04 but I can't find the how. It is not in ubuntu software and if I type sudo apt-get install gnome-schedule, I get it's not found. I would like to use it because I find it quick and easy…
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Running .sh every 5 minutes

I have a .sh script that downloads a photo from Japanese satellite's server and sets it as a background picture. I've put it into startup list, but how do I run it every, like, 5 minutes, automatically?
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How do I configure Ubuntu to reboot every day at a given time?

Using the terminal or a bash file, how can I configure Ubuntu to reboot every day at (say for instance) 3 AM? In other words, I want to schedule an automatic reboot through the terminal. I haven't been able to find anything related to this on Google…
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Is there software to periodically start and close an application?

Exemplary use case: I would like to start Telegram Desktop periodically every 3 hours for 15 minutes, to check for newly incoming messages. After 15 minutes, the application should close again and re-launch after the next 3 hours.
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run script every last thursday of the month

How to make a script run at e.g. 16:00 every last thursday of the month using gnome-schedule or cron?
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How do I periodically turn off showing hidden files?

So, in order to hide some files and folders to unskilled eyes, I modified their names putting a dot to the start of the name. It works, and files are hidden. Nosy people that are not skilled will not see them. And using Nautilus I turn "show hidden…
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