On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 09:25, alben benavente alteza wrote: > As much as possible I don't want to use cron. I want my script to be self > sufficient. I am also interested if such thing is possible. > > Do you have some idea on how to do this? Please advice.
Maybe you'd get better luck if you'd code it in C rather than the shell? :D Shell scripts are not the end to everything, just as most unix tools are. Cron was made specifically for the purpose it currently serves, and only for that purpose. The shell is supposedly used as a mechanism for passing commands to the operating system (whether interactively or automated). --
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