Skip wrote: > I am on a linux, shared hosting site (Bluehost.com). I don't > know how I can get it into the startup script for that box, and I only have > access to my own home directory. That may be a showstopper right there. > I'll have no way of knowing when they reboot the box.
Earlier, Matt Kettler wrote: > Running from cron is only for things you want to run > at regular intervals. It is not a valid way for starting daemons (ie: > something you want to run once and leave running) Actually, something like this (from man 5 crontab on Fedora 8) might be relevant: These special time specification "nicknames" are supported, which replace the 5 initial time and date fields, and are prefixed by the [EMAIL PROTECTED] character: @reboot : Run once, at startup. Skip may have permissions to edit his own crontab (with the crontab command) and set a daemon going at reboot time. There may be CPU time quota constraints, of course. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail: james@ | "Just for once, I wish we would encounter an alien aprilcottage.co.uk | menace that wasn't immune to bullets..." | -- The Brigadier, 'Doctor Who'