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From: matt@medicod.UUCP (Matt Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Deamon to execute a program automatically
Keywords: DEAMON
Message-ID: <18@medicod.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 91 21:06:44 GMT
References: <91022.084230NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET> <1991Jan22.174347.5680@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: matt@medicod.UUCP (Matt Smith)
Organization: Medicode, Inc.
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In article <1991Jan22.174347.5680@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> khioe@mona.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Kent Hioe) writes:
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>Hi, I need some information on how to create a deamon from the Xenix-OS.
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>I would like to create a deamon that will execute a program at certain time
>every night. How can I do that ?
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>ie, at 2:00 am I would like to execute data backup automatically.

It already exists.  Look in your manual under cron(C) in your user
reference manual