From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 11 21:59:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BAE937B50B for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 21:59:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f3C4xam37011; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:59:36 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:59:36 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: execute programs perodically Message-ID: <20010412165936.B36812@itouchnz.itouch> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from root@pukruppa.de on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 06:15:07AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 06:15:07AM +0000, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > > Sorry for not understanding any manuals! > > How can I tell FreeBSD to execute a program in periodical intervals, e.g. > every ten minutes oer twice a day? Check out crontab(1) and crontab(5) -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny" - Kin Hubbard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message