"shawn bright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

> messenger (gaim) all night if i didn't. i have a cron script that 
> checks the
> hour of day, if later than x pm. does
> os.system("/etc/init.d/network stop")
> os.system("chmod a-x /etc/init.d/network") ( so that a reboot 
> doesn't
> override it )

Whilst this is a Python list it might not always be the best solution.
In the case above a shell script is probably better since all you are
doing is calling shell commands.

I assume your cron is run as root?

Alan G 


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