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From: molnar@neis.UUCP (Christopher Molnar)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Deamon to execute a program automatically
Keywords: DEAMON
Message-ID: <14@neis.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jan 91 00:41:32 GMT
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Reply-To: molnar@neis.UUCP (Christopher Molnar)
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In article <18@medicod.UUCP> matt@medicod.UUCP (Matt Smith) writes:
>>Hi, I need some information on how to create a deamon from the Xenix-OS.
>>I would like to create a deamon that will execute a program at certain time
>>every night. How can I do that ?
>>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
Sorry to quote all again, but is it possible to use this to run a vpix
application in the background.... Say a fido-net mailer? since I have yet
to find one for Xenix (that works)?