[ILUG] Wait until program ?

[Niall O Broin]

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 02:14:20PM +0100, Tim wrote:

> > is there a reason not to use cron?
> > cron, crontab, anacron
> > 
> 
> 
> The only reason I can thing of, is if you don't want to have atd and crond
> running.  (i.e. Less daemons).
> I suppose you could always use 'sleep'.
> Eg sleep 10;ls
> Wait 10 seconds, then do ls
> 
> But I repeat, you're question is a bit vague....

His question is a bit vague because it's in response to a question I asked
WEEKS ago. Have a look in the archives. Eventually had to answer it myself :-)





Niall