cron

[Thomas Stivers]

On 06/15/03  7:52 AM -0700, Ralph W. Reid wrote:
> Have you considered using `at' instead of editing that file manually?
> For what you want to do, the `at' command line would look something
> like this:
> 
> at now + 15 minutes
> 
> You can then enter a list of commands you would like to run, and then
> terminate the list with a CTRL-D (end of file character) to get
> things started.  You might also want to redirect any output from the
> commands to keep from getting email every 15 minutes if the list ends
> with `at now + 15 minutes'.  See the man page for `at' for more
> details.  I hope this helps.

The at program is intended more for scheduling jops to run one time.
While it could be run recursively, or something, cron is far more suited
to repetitive tasks. Run "man 5 crontab" for the syntax of crontab
files. Only running 'man crontab" gives you the syntax of the crontab
command which is different.

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