[ale] scripting, bash, help (fwd)

[Ben Phillips]

On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, George Nies wrote:

> while :
> do
>     tail -n 1 /var/log/secure | grep -v ident && echo -e "\a"
>     sleep 60 #(seconds) or whatever sleep time you want.
> done

JOOC, what in the system counts down the seconds for a sleep command? 
Does it run like a cron job, or does the processor actually keep up with
it like a suspended job & monitor the clock to see when to resume
execution? 


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