Re: Sleep v Cron
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 05:56:44PM -0600, Telly Williams wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Hopefully this doesn't sound crazy, but what would be the
> pros/cons of using a script with a sleeper instead of a script
> via cron? Seems the same to me(?). Thanks.
Well, 'sleep' is for a one time delay of a command like 'at' whereas 'cron'
is for doing things regularly. But I'm suprised that you didn't get that
from reading the 'man' pages. You did, didn't you?
-K
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