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Ping
Authored by: Andrew McDonald on Jun 26, '03 05:31:58PM
What about ping?

   ping -i 300 127.0.0.1 > /Volumes/MyVolume/wake_up

Background it with an ampersand, or make it temporary by using the -c flag.

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Sync
Authored by: tootired on Oct 18, '04 05:52:05PM

Hi !

I am using this one:

# crontab -l
*/10 * * * * date >/Volumes/Home/.sync.date; /bin/sync

any comments ?

Hans



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