On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:11:19PM +0200, Christof Hurschler wrote: > Hi, > > 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 either the system crontab (/etc/crontab) or set up your own personal one. man crontab Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]