Re: how to call a script every (say) 5 minutes
| From: | Ray Hunter | Date: | Wed, 01 Oct 2003 15:03:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: how to call a script every (say) 5 minutes | ||
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On linux do run the following commands:
$ man cron
$ man crontab
$ man 5 crontab
That should get you started with cron on linux...
HTH,
Ray
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 08:53, Jan Hübbers wrote:
> Hi all,
> can someone point me to a quickstart to the
> following problem?
>
> I'd like the OS to call a Script every (say) 5 minutes, that does some
> time comparisons (like: "hey, you ought to see your customer
> in one hour" or the like) on some database thingy.
>
> Basically i'm just interested in how to perform a script every
> given amount of time under Windows (2k, XP) and Linux.
>
> I don't know to much about cron jobs or the windows scripting
> host, but i thought something along the line might work out.
>
> thanks in advance
> Jan