[Wine] Re: Windows Scheduled Tasks - Supported?

Usurp wineforum-user at winehq.org
Wed Apr 14 03:25:57 CDT 2010


oiaohm wrote:
> This answer is not going to be something you like.  bfloeagle
> 
> Windows scheduled tasks don't exist in wine.  There are a lot of good reasons.   Most items that need scheduled tasks would also need running as root breaching the rule never run wine as root.  Running a backup program at times will require root.
> 
> 

As far as I know, scheduled tasks can be planned in cron and use a different user than root. In this case, the root argument is moot.







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