Re: what's teh simplest way to run a command periodically?

From: Dave Hinz (davehinz_at_spamcop.net)
Date: 11/04/03 

Date: 4 Nov 2003 01:09:35 GMT

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 19:00:53 +0100, Desmond Coughlan <pasdespam_desmond@zeouane.org> wrote:
> Jaime Cardoso <jaimec@solsuni.pt> wrote ...
>> Also, be carefull because crontab doens't have your $PATH defined.
>
> So I was always told, but found to my amazement that a 'cat' placed into my
> crontab file, was executed ...

Hint: which cat

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