Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 19:03:06 -0800 (PST) From: Bhishan Hemrajani <bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org> To: kc5vdj@swbell.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: run every 10 seconds Message-ID: <200003060303.TAA02466@cytosine.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <200003060121.TAA08866@ppp-207-193-2-190.kscymo.swbell.net> from Jim Bryant at "Mar 5, 2000 07:21:18 pm"
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I get an error when trying to compile that.
I don't know C at all... so if this is a stupid thing on my
part, I apologize.
This is the error:
/var/tmp/ccpD24411.o: In function `main':
/var/tmp/ccpD24411.o(.text+0x22): undefined reference to `exec'
Thank you.
--bhishan
> In reply:
> > I was wondering if you could schedule a program to run
> > every 10 seconds. I tried to do this with cron, but as
> > far as I know, you can only have it run once a minute.
> >
> > Please help.
>
> maybe something like this?
>
> int main(void)
> {
> .
> .
> .
> while(1)
> {
> if (!fork()) return(exec("whatever"));
>
> sleep(10);
> }
> }
>
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