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Old 12-04-2012, 08:48 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by sencer View Post
Hi,

I am new to forum --and a new kindle owner. I have rooted my kindle, and trying to write a script that will run periodically. I was planning to use cron for this, but I don't have it. I have crontab though, I have a crontab file (/etc/crontab/root).

How do I restart cron? Actually how do I restart any service?
Ummmmm... If it doesn't have to be run at certain intervals, you could have it run everytime a screensaver happens... For that, you would use dos1's eventManager, located just a couple thread sdown from this one..
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