Running regularly
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dm at hri.com
Fri Feb 4 12:39:54 PST 1994
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 14:27:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Matthew J Ghio <mg5n+ at andrew.cmu.edu>
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.
I tried this on the system here, but it killed off the process when I
logged off.
If it's a UNIX system, try using the ``nohup'' (for ``no-hang-up'',
from the days when you connected to computers by telephone) command to
keep your background process alive after you log out.
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