[ubuntu-in] Is there any Options to schedule a task in linux

[S Gantayet]

On Monday 11 June 2007 21:31, Soumyadip Modak wrote:
> On 6/11/07, Francis Bosco <ifrbose at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In windows, we can schedule a task to run at boot-up using task
> > scheduler. like that is there any options available in linux especially
> > for Ubuntu edgy --
> > Regards
> > Bose.
>
> Try googling for cron
>
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> Soumyadip Modak
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> soumyadip at ubuntu-in.org
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'cron' is a time-based scheduling service in Unix and Unix-like operating 
systems (Wikipedia definition) - so maybe this does not fits the OP's 
requirement, as he wants an boot-up initializer - and not a time based 
scheduling. Ofcourse - the subject line mentioned 'schedule a task' but the 
post seems to stress on 'boot-up'

The init, inittab and rc files (google for them) will accomplish the boot-up 
task scheduling requirement. As a pointer, this link will be pretty useful:

http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/linux/run/ch05_03.htm

HTH
- gantayet