fr: "jerry feldman" >> What about at. If you can use at, you can cheat and >> have your at script schedule another at. >dan moylan wrote >> my web hosting service, pair.com, has recently taken away cron >> privleges from their cheapest accounts (like mine). i had been >> using cron to update a posted calendar so as always to point to >> the next pending event. is there some other function which could >> be used to accomplish cron-like functionality? they are running >> open bsd. unfortunately the bums have shut down at as well. btw, do background jobs stay running after one logs out? perhaps i could run a script with a sleep loop? would that work? dan moylan