From: sdw@meaddata.com (Stephen Williams)
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 94 12:49:55 PST
To: mg5n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Matthew J Ghio)
Subject: Re: Running regularly
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> 
> 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
...
> I tried this on the system here, but it killed off the process when I
> logged off.
> 
> As for starting too many processes, just don't start them...  leave it
> as one single process that just repeats itself indefinently with sleeps
> in between.

You did try to nohup it, right?

nohup script blabla...

sdw
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