Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:28646 news.admin:12242 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!gatech!udel!princeton!phoenix.Princeton.EDU!pfalstad From: pfalstad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul Falstad) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,news.admin Subject: Re: Periodic execution of a program Message-ID: <6233@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Date: 13 Feb 91 04:49:06 GMT References: <5829@rex.cs.tulane.edu> Sender: news@idunno.Princeton.EDU Followup-To: news.admin Organization: The Royal Society For Putting Things On Top Of Other Things Lines: 17 rawdon@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Michael Rawdon) wrote: >I'm trying to get a program to run on a daily basis, at the same time each >day (more or less). Being just a normal user, I don't have access to >crontab. I was investigating a function called 'at', but it doesn't seem >to be quite what I want. Didn't I see this article posted a few weeks ago? I've seen articles in other groups (including the "void function pointers" question in comp.lang.c) that look very familiar; I think they are reposts. What could be causing this? -- Paul Falstad, pfalstad@phoenix.princeton.edu | 10 PRINT "PRINCETON CS" [Your blood pressure just went up.] | 20 GOTO 10 Princeton University would like to apologize to everyone for this article. "It seems inappropriate to use comp.unix.wizards as an AI interface to TFM." - Tom Christiansen