Task Scheduler?

[sling-shot]

I was trying to set up my eth0 connection to connect at 2 am and disconnect at 8 am.

Task Scheduler as detailed here http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdeadmin/kcron/index.html was what I thought of for the solution.

However I am not able to find the same in System Settings as described in the page and the same is not found in the menus / Synaptic.

What am I missing here?! 
-SS.

[Old-Polack]

I was trying to set up my eth0 connection to connect at 2 am and disconnect at 8 am.

Task Scheduler as detailed here http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdeadmin/kcron/index.html was what I thought of for the solution.

However I am not able to find the same in System Settings as described in the page and the same is not found in the menus / Synaptic.

What am I missing here?! 
-SS.

The kdeadmin4 package, which is no longer in the repos. It should be replaced when KDE is upgraded. See here;

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,94718.msg797770.html#msg797770

[sling-shot]

Thanks for the information Old-Polack.

Tex is probably busy with the 64 bit preparation. Or something is seriously wrong with KDE 4.7. KDE website says 4.7 series is concluded.

Is there any alternative to Task Scheduler?
-SS.

[Old-Polack]

Thanks for the information Old-Polack.

Tex is probably busy with the 64 bit preparation. Or something is seriously wrong with KDE 4.7. KDE website says 4.7 series is concluded.

Is there any alternative to Task Scheduler?
-SS.

You could try lxtask, described as, "Lightweight and desktop independent task manager."

[sling-shot]

I will look it up.
-SS.

[djohnston]

You could try lxtask, described as, "Lightweight and desktop independent task manager."

Unfortunately, lxtask is a task manager, like top and htop, but will not do task scheduling. Have you thought about using cron? You'd have to screate scripts for turning the ethernet port on and off using ifup eth0 and ifdown eth0, then call those scripts from cron at the specified times.

[sling-shot]

I found that ifup/ifdown eth0 are the exact commands I need to run. I have verified that they work as needed from a root terminal.

I found gnome-schedule in Synaptic which according to description should work the same way. But after installing it and configuring the same commands, I have found that it does not actually run them or something. I see no change.

I have crond and fcron set to run at startup and they seem to be running according to Services and demons under PCLinuxOS Control Centre.
I have also verified that they are currently running using Ctrl-Escape > System Activity.

I am unable to proceed further.

[AS]

I found that ifup/ifdown eth0 are the exact commands I need to run. I have verified that they work as needed from a root terminal.

I found gnome-schedule in Synaptic which according to description should work the same way. But after installing it and configuring the same commands, I have found that it does not actually run them or something. I see no change.

a couple of hints:
cron jobs can be set up on a per user basis, on the other side network interfaces could have been configured to not allow to be managed from (non root) users, you performed the test as root, but I'm not sure you have set up the jobs as root, just verify about this in control center.

when I use cron, I usually enter the commands using the absolute path (/sbin/ifup, /sbin/ifdown) this will exclude any possible issue PATH related, probably not your issue, but a good advice as general rule when using cron.

from a terminal, running the command, crontab -l (the option is -L but lowercase), you will get a listing of the scheduled jobs, something like:

0 2 * * * /bin/ifup eth0
0 4 * * * /sbin/ifdown eth0

AS