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Re: [PLUG] Specify seconds in cron ?
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> On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:46:41AM -0400, Sandhitsu R Das wrote:
> > I want to run something every 45 seconds ? Can I do this with cron or any
> > variant ?
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> To the best of my knowledge, not with regular cron. I expect there
> are some other folks' versions of cron that do this, but I'm not
> convinced doing so is a particularly good idea.
Why do you say so ?
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> If you need control that fine grained, you're better off starting a
> daemon that will run indefinitely but sleep 45 seconds periodically.
>
I was trying to avoid coding. If I don't get anything else, I will.
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