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On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, dan moylan wrote: > fr: "jerry feldman" <gaf at blu.org> > >> What about at. If you can use at, you can cheat and > >> have your at script schedule another at. > > >dan moylan wrote > >> my web hosting service, pair.com, has recently taken away cron > >> privleges from their cheapest accounts (like mine). i had been > >> using cron to update a posted calendar so as always to point to > >> the next pending event. is there some other function which could > >> be used to accomplish cron-like functionality? they are running > >> open bsd. > > unfortunately the bums have shut down at as well. Oh yeah. That eats up a lot of system resources. NOT!!! Unless they're doing it for security reasons. To do damage you have to be logged on at the time. > btw, do background jobs stay running after one logs out? perhaps > i could run a script with a sleep loop? would that work? Normally, yes. There is a command called "nohup" which will disassociate a program from teh tty and make it ignore the HANGUP signal, so it will continue to run after you've logged out. You could set up a program to do a sleep 60 ; theworkyouwantdone; in a loop, and run it nohup. Another option, if you have CGI or PHP access, is to make your task a CGI script and call it occasionally using lynx from a system that DOES have cron. ------------------------------------------------------------------- DDDD David Kramer http://thekramers.net DK KD DKK D Imagine an alternate history where William S. Burroughs was DK KD actually interested in mainframe hardware design. DDDD Bob Bruhin - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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