Re: [expert] cron for users

[Tony McGee]

On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, Daniel Woods pushed some small plastic letters in this order:
> > test it with something simple. I should have though of that. ;-) I 'm in to
> > much of a hurry.
> > 
> > do you know if I can do something every 30 seconds or am I limited to 1 min.
> > intervals
> 
> Why bother using cron at all then ?  Why not just start your script run your
> commands in a loop and have it "sleep 30" seconds before the next iteration ?
> 
> Thanks... Dan.

It depends on whether you really want the script to be accurate with regards to
time. Putting a script to sleep for 30 sec each time would cause a fair bit of
drift each hour. Better to have a cron job run each minute and then put the
script to sleep for 30 sec only once.

Tony