On Mon, 24 May 1999, Jack Barnett wrote:
> Any documents on how to run a program 24-7 .
man crond, man crontab. :-) I would take the loop and sleep out, and
just run it every 5 minutes, or every 10, or 1 with crond.
Lawson
>< Microsoft free environment
This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
>
> I wrote a small perl script that checks the mail and depending on the
word
> in the subject line takes certain actions depeding on the subject.
>
> The script keeps looping and sleeping till there is new mail. the
script
> has to be run as the user to work properly and has to be always running
so
> that when a user sends mail to this, it will do its things and give the
> messages back to the user.
>
> The problems if I exist the session the program dies, and I really
don't
> like have a xterm windows open 24-7 just for this.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Jack
>
>
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