[anothermacguy]

Hello, I need help creating a script, which will execute some other scripts at particular times of the day. For example, if I had 3 scripts, named A, B and C. I want to write a script which would allow:

Script A to be run at 10am
Script B to be run at 11am
Script C to be run at 12pm.

I also have another problem. These scripts are all running the same application, and it requires that I terminate the previous process, and restart it. How can I terminate a process in a script? I won't know the PID, because it could be any new number, and I want this to be automated. I hope somebody can help (and understands what I'm trying to do).

Thanks a bunch.............anothermacguy

[iloveOSX]

i'm not sure but try "man cron" this should bring up the manual on cron which lets you schedule scripts

[anothermacguy]

Thanks iLoveOSX. That was exactly what I was looking for. In case anyone was curious, here is the answer to my second question (how to kill a process when you don't know its pid [when writing a script], but you do know the name it runs under):

ps -aux | grep NAMEHERE | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill

thanks again.........anothermacguy

[This message has been edited by anothermacguy (edited 11-27-2000).]