From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 11 22: 0:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D8A8337B50B for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 22:00:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 93055 invoked by uid 100); 12 Apr 2001 05:00:00 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15061.13904.115822.145396@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 00:00:00 -0500 To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: execute programs perodically In-Reply-To: <76157168@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Ulrich Kruppa types: > Sorry for not understanding any manuals! Which one did you look ati? > How can I tell FreeBSD to execute a program in periodical intervals, e.g. > every ten minutes oer twice a day? The cron daemon handles that for you. Read the manual on the crontab(5) and crontab(1) man pages for details on the file format for cron, and how to install the man pages. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message