On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 02:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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"...
Waking up once a minute (which is a signal itself) to spend a 1/2 second reading some 5 line (yes, yes, they can be longer) text files is a *lot* simpler than having a signaling system for each crontab file. > At the least it could optimize out obviously simple cases... Like what? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA The difference between Rock&Roll and Country Music? Old Rockers still on tour are pathetic, but old Country singers are still great. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
