Christof Hurschler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've scanned the cron man pages, but it seems that cron is only set > up to do daily, weekly, and monthly jobs in Debian. > > Is there a simpe way to have a script execute at shorter time > intervals. I'd like to run the swendeleter.pl script automatically > every so often to keep my mailbox from overfiling.
Use crontab(1), like on every other Unix. :-) If you need some other frequency for a package or system script, you could drop a crontab fragment in /etc/cron.d; see crontab(5) for the format, and pretend these are parts of the system crontab file. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
