Jobs otherthan crontab

hi friends,
i am using linux system
i have 3 three jobs in crontab
otherthan this three is there any possibility for a process or processes to run in the background i.e., without any human interaction like cronjobs

you didn't mention if you are also using Oracle but since this is an Oracle forum :) you may prefer to use Oracle's scheduler maybe - http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14231/schedover.htm
http://psoug.org/reference/dbms_scheduler.html
10g is needed for dbms_scheduler, other wise dbms_job can be used.

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Message was edited by: Daniel Lang

Thnx for the direction, direwolf
It seems, that I'm to "old style" UNIX damaged...
Does the calendar bug from launchd still exists in 10.5.1 ? As long this is the case, as long it will not be a replacement for cron.
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Cheers Daniel
Message was edited by: Daniel Lang

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