Matthew Bernardini <matthew@gandalf.rutgers.edu> wrote:
Why not make two shell scripts, one that sleeps for so long (say 20 minutes) using the unix sleep command, and then calls the remailer scripts in an infinite while loop. This would work if you set it up as a background
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I tried this on the system here, but it killed off the process when I logged off.
As for starting too many processes, just don't start them... leave it as one single process that just repeats itself indefinently with sleeps in between.
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