Periodic tasks.

[Ben Finney]

Ramashish Baranwal <ramashish.lists at gmail.com> writes:

> I am trying to execute some tasks periodically, those familiar with
> unix can think of it as equivalent to cron jobs.

Can you not use cron? If not, why not? Is there an equivalent service
you can use?

> I have tried looking around, but couldn't find a way.

Using the services provided by the operating system would be far
preferable to re-inventing a scheduler service.

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