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From: Bhishan Hemrajani <bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org>
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Subject: Re: run every 10 seconds
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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