Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 20:18:26 +0200 From: "F. Xavier Noria" <fxn@retemail.es> To: freebsd <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Quick Question Message-ID: <3B51DE72.88F1AA4@retemail.es> References: <OCBBILMKOLJACEFBFIDJEEJPCBAA.reyn@commonroads.org>
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> Matt Winslow wrote:
>
> Is there a way to make a PERL script run once every 10 minutes...
You can do it with Perl like this:
while (1) {
# your original code
sleep 600;
}
but the usual way to run something periodically is to let cron to do it.
Basically, one just needs to add a line with certain data in a text file
that appears executing crontab -e. See this nice intro
http://www.superscripts.com/tutorial/crontab.html
and man cron, man crontab and man 5 crontab for the whole thing.
> And a real dumb question....once I go into SU mode...how do I get out?
Type `exit'.
> Slowly learning....
It's worth the effort :-), perhaps you would need to read something on
using Unix.
-- fxn
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