From: Roy Kidder (RoyKidder@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Sep 21 2004 - 22:51:15 EDT
I personally would approach it this way:
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#!/bin/sh
while [ "TRUE" ]
do
echo "Something"
sleep 86400
done
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Roy
brian irvin said:
> Team:
>
> I have a very small shell program that does this:
>
> while `sleep 86400`
> do
> ..
> ..
> echo "Something"
> ...
> ...
> done
>
> (86400 is one day).. The program does not seem to wake
> up after 1 day, and process what I want it to do
> everyday.
>
> If I change 86400 to some smaller number, it seems to
> work fine. Could anyone tell why something like this
> happens?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Brian.
>
>
>
>
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