Running regularly

[hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)]

>If it turns out that it was just the process that was automatically killed
>on a time interval, then you could easily write a script that would spawn a
>new process and then kill the parent.

To continue the explanation, no single process would ever execute for
a long time, since it would, phoenix-like, periodically die and be
reborn.

A clever mail filter hack could also check to see if it was still
alive (say, with a socket) and then start it running again if it had
stopped.

Eric