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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 01:53:20 -0400
To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
From: Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com>
Subject: Re: execute programs perodically
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try crontab(5)

man 5 crontab

That should help some

- Jim

At 06:15 AM 4/12/2001 +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?
>
>Thanks for your answer.
>
>Uli.
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