On Thursday 26 February 2009 18:35:01 Mike Castle wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Michael Pobega <pob...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 04:54:28PM -0500, Long Wind wrote: > >> I want a script. > >> The script run a command, wait one minute, > >> then run the command again, wait one minute again > >> ... again and again ... > > Sounds like a job for Cron! > > It depends on how long the job takes, and what the requirements are. > > They did seem to imply they want to wait 60 seconds between the end of > one run to the start of the next one, as opposed to running every 60 > seconds regardless.
The OP says they want fixed-delay. Cron is for fixed-frequency. A script that schedules itself as an "at" job as it's last command is another way to handle fixed-delay. > If the job takes 45 seconds, it could be a pretty substantial semantic > difference. Yep. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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