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Date:      Thu, 12 Apr 2001 00:00:00 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: execute programs perodically
Message-ID:  <15061.13904.115822.145396@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <76157168@toto.iv>

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Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> types:
> Sorry for not understanding any manuals!

Which one did you look ati?

> How can I tell FreeBSD to execute a program in periodical intervals, e.g.
> every ten minutes oer twice a day?

The cron daemon handles that for you. Read the manual on the
crontab(5) and crontab(1) man pages for details on the file format for
cron, and how to install the man pages.

	<mike
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