If you need to do something at regular intervals, then you want to use
cron (as Derek said). If you want to do something only once, or at
irregular intervals, then "at" will be a better choice. See the man
page for at.
--
Larry Grover, PhD
Assoc Prof of Physiology
Marshall Univ Sch of Med
On Wed, 12 Sep 2001 03:55:02 Derek Benson wrote:
> Try:
> man 5 crontab
> and as root:
> crontab -e
> then enter using vi like commands (i for insert mode and esc to
> enter command mode :wq to write to file:
> 30 17 * * * /usr/bin/killall pppd
>
> And your done.
>
> derek
>
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Selvi wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 13:13:43 +0530
> > From: Selvi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: kill specific process
> >
> > How to kill particular process automatically at spcified time?
> >
> > Ex . I want kill pppd at 5.30pm...
> >
> > Please give detailed explanation
> >
> >
> > ur help will be valuable
> >
> >
> > Balamurugan
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