[plug] Crontab??

[Senectus .]

& detaches the job.. 
Might even be a good idea to use 
nohup appname &

My crontab did not work last night either.. I might try the above.

> 
> A week or so ago I asked a crontab question and was informed my answer
> was probably in the man pages - I was trying to get my computer to run a
> virus scan on the whole system at a specific time each week.  The job
> would not work, however if I simply ran the command myself it would
> run.  After much searching on the internet I concluded that it must be
> timing-out because crontab implements every minute so set-up a script to
> be run instead. This brings me to my question - on the last line above,
> what is the meaning of the '&', does it allow the job to stay open for a
> longer period?

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