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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Use the time in a script?
Message-ID: <13974@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 30 Sep 90 02:37:52 GMT
References: <14183@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <14183@hydra.gatech.EDU> ce1zzes@prism.gatech.EDU (Eric Sheppard) writes:
-I would like to make sure that a script or program is not executed during
-a certain period of every hour.  Is there an elegant method to achieve this,
-short of an additional C program?

Sure -- have "cron" disable the "x" bits during the requisite periods.