--but that seems just as strange as, say, putting a 'sleep' clause in
one of your scripts. i'm sure there is a way to call a system
command in perl and say:
There is one large (and often useful) difference between using sleep and
cron. When you use cron you can have more than one instance run
--howdy:
[snip]
--X: i did think about that, but then figured i'd be going way
off topic, so i just answered the question and continued lurking ...
if the script died for whatever reason, the sleep wouldn't help would it?
--X: and very nicely, too. (at least, it works for my linux servers)
i'
Wouldn't:
exec sleep 300
do what you want?
-Original Message-
From: Roger Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 6:43 PM
To: Johnson, Shaunn; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: question about CRON
At 05:56 PM 1/24/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>--you cou
At 05:56 PM 1/24/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>--you could run a script a few ways, but, for cron, you
>could do something like:
>
>[example]
>
>0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * sh /home/shaunn/scripts/reminder
>
>[/example]
>
>--but that seems just as strange as, say, putting a 'sleep' clause
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If I wanted to schedule a script to run every five minute what would the
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Lance
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Subject: question about CRON
If I wanted to schedule a script to run every five minute what would the
syntax be?
Thank you in Advance
Lance
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