Buy an interstellar-chameleon-monkey, send him back in time to 1970, where he can impersonate Dennis Richie and insert some code into the C compiler that will propagate down through time into the latest compilers used to build Linux and add some code allowing you to edit the inittab file. Oh, bugger. I forgot. You can't buy interstellar-chameleon-monkeys yet. Sorry. Scratch that idea. Adam Adrian C. wrote: > I seriously doubt that would work as our guy here is not root, thus the > question asked. > > # ls -l /etc/inittab > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2464 2002-05-07 07:45 /etc/inittab > > > --Adrian > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:linux-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jean M. Bouchara > Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 13:16 PM > To: linux-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Emulate(?) the crontab > > > Put the command in /etc/inittab: > > > ap:3:respawn:/usr/local/bin/my_script.sh > or > ap:3:respawn:/bin/su - someuser -c /usr/local/bin/my_script.sh > > > >> Hello, > >> I guess you could run something like this in the background.. >> >> #!/bin/bash >> until false >> do >> planet.py geek/fancy/config.ini >> sleep 900 >> done >> exit 0 >> >> --Adrian >> - >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" > in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
