Re: Newbie unix question

From: George (greerga@CIRCLEMUD.ORG)
Date: 02/06/98


>>>Is there anyway to make the autorun script run without being constantly
>>>logged in?
>>>
>>man at
>>man cron
>>man crontab
>>
>>These *could* be used to check constantly (like every second), but
>>probably makes more sense to check every 15 minutes or half hour or
>>some such.
>Eh, como?  In the circle30bpl12 (or 11) directory, type ./autorun &
>Type logout, and that's what I do, and it works just dandy

I believe the second ('man at') person was trying to show how you can run
the autorun script without being logged in.  The third person thought along
the lines of being able to log out after running it.

Don't forget some places need 'nohup'.

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http://www.van.ml.org/~greerga | is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard


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