Re: CRON - Can you make CRON run faster than every minute

2001-07-20 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 02:55:29PM +1000, Ian Perry wrote: > What I need to do is to check the second channel of an ISDN link to ensure > that it is always up. > I have a script running in CRON every minute. This came as part of the > utilities with the ISDN card. One minute is not so much of a p

RE: CRON - Can you make CRON run faster than every minute

2001-07-20 Thread Ian Perry
27; > Subject: Re: CRON - Can you make CRON run faster than every minute > > > > Thus spake Ian Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > Hi Debianers, > > > > > > I need to make CRON run faster than every minute. Every > 15 seconds would be > >

Re: CRON - Can you make CRON run faster than every minute

2001-07-19 Thread Mike Fedyk
> Thus spake Ian Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Hi Debianers, > > > > I need to make CRON run faster than every minute. Every 15 seconds would be > > good. Is this possible ? On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:20:48PM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > Don't think you can speed it up, but you can have a

Re: CRON - Can you make CRON run faster than every minute

2001-07-19 Thread Robert L. Harris
Don't think you can speed it up, but you can have a script run once a min, sleep 15, run, sleep 15, run, etc. If you ahve to: cron1 * * * * * command cron2 * * * * * sleep 15; command cron3 * * * * * sleep 30; command cron4 * * * * * sleep 45; command which is real ugly, but will w