I've read abit about cron, then I was thinking about doing it myself,
when I came across this very neat file :)
Just to confirm, please, all I do is uncomment line 10 and every hour
fetchnews will run as a daemon? Neat-o!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat -n /etc/cron.hourly/fetchnews
1 #!/bin/sh
2 #
3 # Uncomment the following if you want to regularly
4 # fetch new messages from your news server.
5 #
6 #
7 # This is part of the leafnode package.
8 #
9
10 #/usr/sbin/fetchnews
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date
Tue Mar 28 22:07:10 IST 2006
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $
thanks,
Thufir
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