Do any scripts run all the time in debian?

Do any scripts run all the time in debian?

[Daniel Dalton]

Hi,

I want to setup a script that grabs all my podcasts at between 7 am and 12 
pm. Since this is when I get the best speeds and download limits.

So my question is. Is there any scripts in debian that are always running 
that I could tell to call my script if date +%H is between 7 and 10?

Obviusly there would be some changes there but something like that.

Thanks,


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Re: Do any scripts run all the time in debian?

[Geoff Shang]

Hi,

Sounds like cron is what you need.  Look at the cron(8), crontab(1) and 
crontab(5) man pages.

If you want to use  a personal crontab, you should set the EDITOR 
environment variable with the path to your preferred text editor so it will 
lload it up when you run crontab.  Either run

export EDITOR=emacs

or whatever your prefered editor is, before running crontab, or put the 
command in your .bash_profile:

Geoff.

Re: Do any scripts run all the time in debian?

[Daniel Dalton]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Geoff Shang wrote:

> Hi,

Hi Geoff,

>
> Sounds like cron is what you need.  Look at the cron(8), crontab(1) and 
> crontab(5) man pages.

I think I only have man crontab.
So is that what I should read?

>
> If you want to use  a personal crontab, you should set the EDITOR environment 
> variable with the path to your preferred text editor so it will lload it up 
> when you run crontab.  Either run
>
> export EDITOR=emacs

I did that thanks.

>
> or whatever your prefered editor is, before running crontab, or put the 
> command in your .bash_profile:

The export one? ok.

Also do you have a sample crontab file?
Am I just meant to put calls to my scripts in it?
I looked at the man crontab page, but I am not sure about sintax.

Thanks,

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