On linux do run the following commands: $ man cron $ man crontab $ man 5 crontab
That should get you started with cron on linux... HTH, Ray On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 08:53, Jan Hübbers wrote: > Hi all, > can someone point me to a quickstart to the > following problem? > > I'd like the OS to call a Script every (say) 5 minutes, that does some > time comparisons (like: "hey, you ought to see your customer > in one hour" or the like) on some database thingy. > > Basically i'm just interested in how to perform a script every > given amount of time under Windows (2k, XP) and Linux. > > I don't know to much about cron jobs or the windows scripting > host, but i thought something along the line might work out. > > thanks in advance > Jan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
