Alternative to Crontab

[Bruce Marshall]

On Sunday 25 November 2007, jenix wrote:
>  I don't know if my ISP considers the
> activity or just the cron jobs running. The do monitor the cron jobs
> running. I only wanted to know if there were any alternatives to crontab.

<sigh>

Could you describe your connection to your ISP?

What I am getting at is:   in a normal setup where you are running linux or 
such on your machine at home, and you connect via  phone, DSL, Cable or 
whatever to your ISP,  they would have NO WAY of determining what you are 
running on your own machine, other than the traffic that it generates.

And most ISP's don't care what you run - - it's the total traffic they are 
worried about.   Yes, some don't want you running services such as web sites 
and email services on your own machine, but we're not talking about that.

So how are you connected, and on whose machine would you LIKE to run a cron 
job.??