From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Adam T. Bowen" Subject: Re: Emulate(?) the crontab Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:43:28 +0000 Message-ID: <45A4DF70.9070005@agitate.org.uk> References: <1095.192.168.1.101.1168427778.squirrel@192.168.1.101> <000301c734b0$37257a80$3801100a@ro.ori.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <000301c734b0$37257a80$3801100a@ro.ori.local> Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Adrian C." Cc: jean@completo.com.br, linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Buy an interstellar-chameleon-monkey, send him back in time to 1970, where he can impersonate Dennis Richie and insert some code into the C compiler that will propagate down through time into the latest compilers used to build Linux and add some code allowing you to edit the inittab file. Oh, bugger. I forgot. You can't buy interstellar-chameleon-monkeys yet. Sorry. Scratch that idea. Adam Adrian C. wrote: > I seriously doubt that would work as our guy here is not root, thus the > question asked. > > # ls -l /etc/inittab > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2464 2002-05-07 07:45 /etc/inittab > > > --Adrian > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org > [mailto:linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Jean M. Bouchara > Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 13:16 PM > To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: Emulate(?) the crontab > > > Put the command in /etc/inittab: > > > ap:3:respawn:/usr/local/bin/my_script.sh > or > ap:3:respawn:/bin/su - someuser -c /usr/local/bin/my_script.sh > > > >> Hello, > >> I guess you could run something like this in the background.. >> >> #!/bin/bash >> until false >> do >> planet.py geek/fancy/config.ini >> sleep 900 >> done >> exit 0 >> >> --Adrian >> - >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" > in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > >