Stefan 'Kaishakunin' Schumacher wrote:
> You can use logger(1) to writes sth. to syslog. I have a simple
> heartbeat shellskript on my servers that is started from /etc/rc.local:
> 
> while true 
> do
> logger "uptime:  `uptime`"
> sleep 600
> done

That's an interesting approach! But why don't you use cron(8)?


Kind regards,

Petar