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Re: Cron or running process?by freddo411 (Chaplain) |
on Apr 28, 2004 at 20:49 UTC ( [id://348947]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Use cron. Cron essentially acts like a running process that fires off things when necessary, (yes, I know that this isn't strictly true...) why reinvent the wheel?
That being said, cron does have a few gotchas:
Editing a crontab file to schedule your scripts is not at all difficult. Consult man crontab for details. -------------------------------------
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