On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: : : On 18-Oct-99 Nathan E Norman wrote: : > On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: : > : > : how do i run a program every 10 minutes? : > : -gnana : > : > Use cron. RTFM `man crontab' to get the details. : > : > Since most people hate being told to RTFM (why?), here's the easy way : > out: : : Because some man pages are short on examples and it often helps to see : examples. Sometimes the explanations given are of little help to newbies.
<flame=off> .. hence the example I provided. I do see that I didn't provide an accurate RTFM reference - I should have said RTFM `man 5 crontab' (which provides plenty of good examples.) If you find documentation that is incomplete, inaccurate, or just plain sucks, file a bug report, preferably with a patch that provides better documentation (if you don't do it, who will?) Finally, there is a difference between being told "I found all the answers here, so RTFM", and "You are stupid. RTFM". I hope my message didn't read as the latter - I have noted responses from others on this list that do. The former response is reasonable, especially since most people are busy. It's also nice to be able to "teach someone to fish", as the saying goes. The latter response is uncalled for and should be avoided. </flame> -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
