[CentOS] How to schedule for a repeated task?

[Athmane Madjoudj]

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:10 AM, hadi motamedi <motamedi24 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All
> I need to schedule for a repeated task on my CentOS server, as the
> followings:
> -) Telnet to a remote node
> -) Issue a command
> -) Capture the output in a log
> -) Logout from Telnet
> -) Wait for a prescribed time interval
> -) Then redo , but append the subsequent output in just on file
> Can you please let me know which options do we have to write such a task?
> Thank you

Use cron to schedule the tasks.

if you need to automate an interactive command you can use expect [1][2]

[1] http://expect.nist.gov/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect


HTH

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Athmane Madjoudj