On Tuesday 20 July 2004 2:06 pm, alben benavente alteza wrote: > Does anyone here done a bask script that will run a program in a certain > time? > > Much like a cron but can't use cron. > > A continous for loop or while takes up alot of my CPU. > > thanks in advance. If you're going to run it for only a couple of times, the at command would be sufficient.
However, if it's going to be run regularly, cron is the sure way to go. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
