Scheduling
 

How do I schedule a single command (./dynip.sh) to be run hourly on Mandriva 2007 official? Help please.

have a look at man crontab

You'll want to learn how to modify /etc/crontab. In addition to the ever so popular 'man crontab', here are some links as reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron
http://www.linux-tutorial.info/modul...rial&pageid=78
http://www.deluxnetwork.com/linux/guides/crons.php

Hope this helps.

In Mandriva (and possibly other distributions), you can put a copy of the script in /etc/cron.hourly. In a terminal window (as root):

Thank you very much for the help. Attempting to edit crontab (via crontab -e) didn't go so well, but apparently adding a script to the cron.hourly does work. It seems to run on the hour exactly (like *:01). =)