Re: Ocupation to my computer.

[Alex Roberts <bse dial pipex com>]

Quoting Pedro Corte-Real (lreal@riff.fe.up.pt):
> *****WARNING***** Highly OFF-TOPIC
Insanley!

> 
> I have decided to leave my computer on all time and when I go to
> school it doesn't do anything for a while. Is there anything that 
> doesn't require user input that I could have him doing. It can't
> be anything that requires network because I have a dialup account
> and I don't want to pay for those communications. But it could be 
> something that after it was finished would mail the results to the 
> web or generate a file that I could attatch to a mail. 
Cron and Crontab are your friends ;)

man cron
man crontab
man 5 crontab


Hope this helps in some way..
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