Frequent Cron

[DeepBlerg]

Hi,

Is it possible to set a cron to run say every 10 seconds. It appears that the minimum frequency is 1 minute.

Thanks

 

[KenCunningham]

As far as I know this isn't possible (but I guess it may be in more recent versions where things like 60/6 might be supported in the minute field of cron - perhaps someone can confirm). If not, perhaps it would be possible to set your script up so that it runs, sleeps for ten seconds then runs itself again. Something like this:

nohup <script to run> &
sleep 10
nohup <script to run> &

Hope this helps.