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Old 11-08-2008
schedule tasks
As far as I know
Crontab is the utulity to schedule tasks to run at specific times.Is there any utility to perform the same task
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Old 11-08-2008
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Originally Posted by tjay83
As far as I know
Crontab is the utulity to schedule tasks to run at specific times.Is there any utility to perform the same task
How about write a daemon and run your task periodly?
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Old 11-08-2008
thanks
What is the diffrence between daemon and crontab?
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Old 11-08-2008
Again homework?

Scheduled task can be done on two basis using different commands:
regular
one time job
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Old 11-18-2008
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