Robert Cummings wrote:

>> That's easily taken care of.  Instead of a cron-job, you could have a
>> script running as a daemon, checking for emails to be sent every
>> 5mins.
> 
> That's the same as running a cron every 5 minutes except now you also
> need to detect if your daemon dies :) On the plus side though, you
> eliminate the overhead of starting up the script every 5 minutes :)

It is not the same as it will prevent multiple scripts running
concurrently in case a batch of emails takes longer that 5 minutes. 
Checking if the daemon dies - I guess it's a matter of taste or
paranoia, but I don't think it's necessary when the script is
sufficiently simple:

#!/bin/sh
while true 
do
    <yourscript>
    sleep 300
done


/Per Jessen, Zürich


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