It was Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:14:20 +0100 when n6tadam wrote:
>The "pressing things", are just maintanace scripts that I have written, but
>I am having to change the permissions on the logfiles each time.
>
>And before you say it :-), Cron is insufficient to do my logrotation.
>Instead, I use a perl script that I wrote.
Hi Thomas,
Could it then be an option to run that perl script in the system cron?
Although I guess you already tinkered with that idea.
Can't you keep a su'd xterm open for this? Minimized/hidden, for your use
only?
Paul
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