Re: Cron

[Kurt Lieber <kurt@lieber.org>]

AFAIK, you can't run a single crontab entry more than once per minute.  In 
fact, cron only scans crontab once per minute, so I doubt very much that you 
can get per-second control over cron scheduling.

--kurt

On Sunday 21 October 2001 13:10, Theo Wribe wrote:
> How do I create a crontab that run's #ping IP every 10 seconds?
>
> Tried crontab -e
>
> 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * *        /bin/ping -s 8 -c 1 www.sunet.se 1>
> /dev/null 2> /dev/null
>
> But it doesn't seem to work.
>
> Thanks Theo