[ILUG] something like cron

Paul Askins paul.askins at analog.com
Wed Aug 29 17:23:58 IST 2001


Would probably do the trick but can't get the procps package to compile on
Solaris, the shell script from Steffen works for my purposes though,

thanks,

Paul.

On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 16:42:30 +0100 (IST), the words of 
Mel <mel at csn.ul.ie> did resemble:
> 
> "watch" does something like this but for a very different purpose. The
> idea of watch is to peridocally run a command and show the result. If
> you
> wanted to run a command every 10 minutes, you could
> 
> watch -n 600 command
> 
> that what you want?
> 
> -- 
> 		Mel
> 
> Random wisdom: rm with the su action pack is not a toy
> 


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