What are some of the things that you are using cron to do? I used
to use a similar DOS based program, same name, eons ago when I ran
a BBS. In the middle of the night I had it start up and run
maintenence for the online games, delete old local e-mail
messages, get/sort/unpack FidoNet mail for
Well, in the (distant) past, I used to occasionally use cron to create a
su account with root priveleges in the middle of the night, and then to
kill it again 5 minutes later. That wasn't on my own system, though...
:) Oh, I suppose you're going to tell me that's not what you're looking
for,
James,
In the morning, I start an at job that runs pon and downloads my email
from a pop server. I set it to run about 15 minutes before I get home
from school, so all my Debian mail is ready to read as soon as I get home.
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Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ACORN techie http://www.acorn.net
Subject: Cron examples?
Date: Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 10:18:38PM -0500
In reply to:James R. Lunsford
Quoting James R. Lunsford([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
What are some of the things that you are using cron to do? I used
to use a similar DOS based program, same name, eons ago when I
James R. Lunsford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What are some of the things that you are using cron to do? I used
to use a similar DOS based program, same name, eons ago when I ran
a BBS. In the middle of the night I had it start up and run
maintenence for the online games, delete old local
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