[NTLUG:Discuss] Script help

[Fred]

On Tues 14 Sep 2010 "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:

> Out of curiosity, why not use cron to run it periodically 
> instead of always running and sleeping?
>
> Pm

It is my understanding that to use cron would require me to 
rewrite the script. Besides, I'm not at all sure how using cron 
in this instance would benefit me. I would think that the process 
id numbers would get pretty big after a while after starting that
program every minute. Not that big numbers are a problem
with modern kernels, but ...

Fred