Posted by Toby A Inkster on 06/05/07 17:43

Jon Slaughter wrote:

> Now is that really the only way to schedule stuff in a linux enviroment?

Cron? No -- there is also "at", but that's more suited towards scheduling a
one-off event in the future.

Or you could write a system service that sleeps for X seconds, wakes up,
does its job and then sleeps again.

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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
[Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux]
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