Running regularly

[Matthew J Ghio]

Matthew Bernardini <matthew at 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
> process,and you don't need to be root for it to work.  Only downsides are
> that when the machine crashes you have to log back in and restart script,
> your sleep command will always be in the top window if your sys-admin
> is watching, and you have to be careful not to spawn to many processes and
> bring the system down.

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.