Paul on Wed, 20 Feb 2002 22:50:16 +0100


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Re: [PLUG] shell newbie has question


If I'm way off it's because I'm just throwing out a quick
guess at what's going on here.  If you want something to run
every minute, cron will do it.  Or, you could tell your
shell script to "sleep 60" in the middle of a loop.

> Sounds like you want a cron job that runs like once a
> minute, checks the directory for a file with
> appropriate properties to see if it's new, then send
> it off to be processed. Im sorta novice too so you
> might want to waite for a couple more responses :-)

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