> Thus spake Ian Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Hi Debianers, > > > > I need to make CRON run faster than every minute. Every 15 seconds would be > > good. Is this possible ?
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:20:48PM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > Don't think you can speed it up, but you can have a script run once a > min, sleep 15, run, sleep 15, run, etc. > > If you ahve to: > > cron1 * * * * * command > cron2 * * * * * sleep 15; command > cron3 * * * * * sleep 30; command > cron4 * * * * * sleep 45; command > > which is real ugly, but will work Yep it is ugly, and you use more resources that way too. Ian, what exactly are you trying to do? Whenever I've had a need for something like this, I wrote a little script that runs in daemon (server or constantly running) mode. Do you need to process files in a certain directory, but only when there are files? Why do you need to run so often? Mike
