On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 09:47:07PM +0200, Stefan Waidele jun. wrote: > Howell Evans wrote: > >You can not make cron more granuler(sp?) then ever 5 mins. > > Quote from 'man cron': > "cron then wakes up every minute, examining all stored crontabs, check- > ing each command to see if it should be run in the current minute." > > So cron's granularity (++sp?) is one minute. >
That's amazing; I would have expected cron to have information to know a priori when to wake up, rather than "polling"... At the least it could optimize out obviously simple cases... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
