From: dm@hri.com
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 94 12:39:54 PST
To: Matthew J Ghio <mg5n+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Running regularly
In-Reply-To: <ohIe6mW00awO8hvVIq@andrew.cmu.edu>
Message-ID: <9402042034.AA29033@sparc31.hri.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain



      
   Date: Fri,  4 Feb 1994 14:27:46 -0500 (EST)
   From: Matthew J Ghio <mg5n+@andrew.cmu.edu>
   
   Matthew Bernardini <matthew@gandalf.rutgers.edu> wrote:
   
   > Why not make two shell scripts, one that sleeps for so long (say 20 minutes)
   > using the unix sleep command, and then calls the remailer scripts in an
   > infinite while loop.  This would work if you set it up as a background
   > process,and you don't need to be root for it to work.  
   
   I tried this on the system here, but it killed off the process when I
   logged off.

If it's a UNIX system, try using the ``nohup'' (for ``no-hang-up'',
from the days when you connected to computers by telephone) command to
keep your background process alive after you log out.