Re: Re: running another script without waiting

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Re: Re: Re: running another script without waiting by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 08, 2003 at 08:21 UTC
In that case, you should probably be looking for cron, and hopefully someone will leap in and exlain why your 'command &' isn;t doing what you think it should do. Please ignore the rest of my previous post...and possibly this one too, cos for all I really know, FreeBSD might actually have an AT command. Examine what is said, not who speaks. "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham "Think for yourself!" - Abigail	[reply]
OT - at vs cron by vek (Prior) on Oct 08, 2003 at 14:26 UTC
The system is actually FreeBSD but I did a system-wide find for 'at' - not available on it. Hmm that's odd, `at` is a standard *nix command (try `which at`, should be in `/usr/bin`). In any case, you wouldn't really want an `at` job for this anyway. An `at` job is useful for when you want to run a command once at some point in the future. It sounds like you want to run your driver program at regular intervals. That's what a `cron` job is for. `man at man cron man crontab` [download] -- vek --	[reply] [d/l] [select]